Othello and the Virtue of Love Essay -- GCSE Coursework Shakespeare Ot

Othello and the Virtue of Love The sack out of the friend and his wife in William Shakespeargons trgedy Othello can not stand up against the repeated assaults of the sinister Iago. Let us in this essay getm for and comment on the examples of jockey found in the play. Helen Gardner in Othello A Tragedy of Beauty and Fortune highlights the love betwixt the hero and his making love The love between Othello and Desdemona is a great venture of faith. He is promiscuous she achieves her freedom, and at a great cost. Shakespeare, in creating the figure of her wronged father, who dies of grief at her revolt, sharpened and heightened, as everywhere, the story in the source. Her disobedience and deception of him perchance cross her mind at Othellos ominous Think on thy sins. If so, she puts the thought aside with They are loves I bear you. . . . Othello is a dramatic play of passion and runs to the time of passion it is also a drama of love which, failing to sustain its height of noon, falls at once to night. (141) The noble-minded love within the drama is the one existing initially between the hero and Desdemona. Francis Ferguson in Two Worldviews Echo Each Other describes the love existing between the protagonist and his wife and how it is an easy prey for the obstructionist When Othello sums up their innocent infatuation, we must feel that he is more stainless than he knows She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. Othello and Desdemona are so attractive that we tend to see them only as they see each other the noble Moor, the pure white maiden. But Shakespeare shows their love, flush here at the very beginning, as dreamy, utterly defensele... ... Giants. Rindge, New Hampshire Richard metalworker Publisher, 1957. Ferguson, Francis. Two Worldviews Echo Each Other. Readings on The Tragedies. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 1996. Reprint from Shakespeare The Pattern in His Carpet. N.p. n.p., 1 970. Gardner, Helen. Othello A Tragedy of Beauty and Fortune. Readings on The Tragedies. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 1996. Reprint from The Noble Moor. British Academy Lectures, no. 9, 1955. Pitt, Angela. Women in Shakespeares Tragedies. Readings on The Tragedies. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 1996. Reprint from Shakespeares Women. N.p. n.p., 1981. Shakespeare, William. Othello. In The Electric Shakespeare. Princeton University. 1996. http//www.eiu.edu/multilit/studyabroad/othello/othello_all.html No line nos.