what was your strongest initial response to the shakespeare story Othello?
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...You never spit against the wind dude\n\n;)
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I just completed a research paper for my 1002 class on MND. (Got a 98% on it, btw).  I used Puck as my subject.  Just think of it this way:  if Oberon had not asked Puck to go get the love juice out of the flower, and had done it all himself, then we would not have had the comic aspect of the play at all.  It would have been just another boring old play.  What I liked best about it was the ending scene when Puck addressed the audience.  He was basically telling them that if they did not like the play, not to worry about it because it was all just a dream.  Great play.
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"too well" implies quality rather than the quantity of "enough".\n\nI think what Shakespeare was trying to have the character imply is that wisdom is not an effective measure when it comes to love; in modern psychological terms we would perhaps expand it by saying that love is an emotion, not a rational process of maturity. Or, at a poetic level, wisdom is of the head, love is from the heart. For me at least, the word "enough" doesn't do it!
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This question is posed at the lowest point in Hamlet's life; father dead (murdered by his uncle), mother marries the uncle, who then plots Hamlet's own death.\n\nTo be, or not to be, that is the question: \n\nthe question posed by Hamlet – a trained mind; the question posed by the play centrally itself. The infinitive form ‘To be’ and ‘not to be’ posits a single compelling choice: Being or Non-being. It is the most radical choice we can make, suicide. \n\nWhether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer \nThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, \nOr to take arms against a sea of troubles \nAnd by opposing end them. \n\n\nThe question is re-expressed in terms of nobility of action; that is, whether it is nobler to endure or nobler to commit suicide. This is not a moral outlook. Rather it is chivalric as the metaphor ‘slings and arrows’ and the apparently mixed metaphor of taking up ‘arms against a sea of troubles’ suggests. The battle against ‘outrageous fortune’ is hopeless since it can marshal a ‘sea’ of force against which, as the mixed metaphor suggests, King Canute resistance is futile. However, by opposing one might successfully provoke one’s own destruction at fortune’s hands, which would end the matter honourably.
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Shakespeare really  came up with his plays, however   Nicholas Rowe and Alexander Pope, were responsible for publishing/editing the plays, so it is hard to say what Shakespeare's original words really were. There is also speculation that Shakespeare was not "smart" enough to come up with the plays that he did. Some believe it could be different Earl's and auhtority figures, but I hardly believe it.
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A bunch of books, plays, etc. from England are usually read and discussed in English literature.  You can pretty much guarantee that Shakespeare will be read.
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Hamlet!! we just finished reading that in my ap senior english class last friday!  try sparknotes.com, it really helps, and there's even a section, no-fear-shakespeare, that has the original text next to everyday english, so that it is easier to understand what it being said in our modern lingo...\nhope this helps!!!
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Notable is Iambic Pentameter- each line has 10 syllables, with emphasis on every other one.  Also, his dialogue is witty, full of double meaning and puns, and rapid fire:\nHere's the opening of Romeo and Juliet:\n  Sam.  Gregory, o’ my word, we’ll not carry coals. \n  Gre.  No. for then we should be colliers.   4\n  Sam.  I mean, an we be in choler, we’ll draw. \n  Gre.  Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o’ the collar. \n \nLots of wordplay.\n\nAlso, obviously, he wrote in Elizabethan english.
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Othello.  He was the poor sucker who was duped by that Iago and ended up losing a wonderful, sweet woman in Desdemona.
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I dunno if this'll help, but I thought I'd give it a try . . .\nI just read through Macbeth with my lil' bro a little while ago, and I'm rereading Othello now, and it's funny that you ask about the inevitability of prohecies and the first prophecy he gets, because even though there are no prophecies in Othello, Iago does say something about deals with the devil.\nI don't have the book on me, so I can't give a direct quote, but, Iago compares himself to a devil and says that the reason he tells the truth in the beginning of his evil scheme to bring about Othello's downfall is because a demon (or in Hamlet's case a witch) will give you bits of the truth in order to lure you into dealing with them.  That way you will think that they aren't evil, because an evil being would lie.  Does that make sense? \nSo when he saw the first prophecy come true without any action on his part, he thought it would be okay to help the rest of them along, because it was his destiny and not evil magic.  I think the irony is that whether or not he killed Duncan the prophecy should have come true.  Or maybe it was foretold that he would kill Duncan, and the witches just neglected to tell him that part, and knowing that he would, let Lady MacB goad him into it.\nI never read "The Bottle Imp", but it sounds interesting, I think I'll give it a try.\nHope that helps!
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At the end of your quotation, you include only the Act, scene and line.  You will include the rest of the information, such as the title of the play and that it was written by Shakespeare in your works cited.  If you are only writing about one play, for example Othello, and you are quoting Othello, your in text citation would look like this:\n\nThe spirit-stirring drum, the' ear-piercing fife,\nThe royal banner and all quality,\nPride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war! (3.3.349-355)\n\nIf the quote is more than three lines long in the actual play, then it must be set off as a block quote.  If you are only quoting one line or a few words, then you can include it in your sentence as normal, but the citation remains the same.\nexample:  After demanding proof from Iago, Othello begins to think about the situation at hand.  He tells Iago, "I think my wife be honest, and think she is not; I think that thou art just, and think thou art not" (3.3.385-386).\n\nWhen using a quote that is longer than three lines in the play, aside from block quotes, you must type it exactly as it appears on the page of the play.  The line breaks must be the same, etc.\n\nHope this helps!
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Try:\nhttp://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/othello/index.html
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It's always seemed that way to me, anti-Semitism was quite common in Shakespeare's day, and nothing in his life or writings suggest that he was any kind of a social reformer.  He wrote what the people paying him wanted to hear because that was his job.  Almost none of what he wrote about Richard III was true, he was, after all, writing for the Grand-daughter of the man who usurped Richard's throne, just as Sir Thomas More, the originator of most of the mis-information, was writing for the man himself, but he told it so brilliantly that the play has eclipsed the facts.  Most performances of "Merchant of Venice" that I've seen show Shylock as an evil man getting his just deserts, it is the mark of Shakespeare's brilliance that it could be just as validly played other ways.  A truly great play doesn't have only one interpretation, I've seen both Lawrence Olivier and Derek Jacobi as Hamlet, the interpretations were total opposites and both worked, that is what the actor contributes.  Never forget, Shakespeare's plays were meant to be watched, not read, you never get the full effect any other way.  I used to live in London, and I've seen several performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company, all of them enriched my appreciation of the plays far beyond what I could get just reading.
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Each of the quotes has it's own particular merit. The first one describes Hamlet as having an Oedipus complex, an unnatural love and fixation for his mother, even at the expense of his father.\n\nThe second seems to put Hamlet's feelings as being caused by self pity and low self-esteem. both of which then affect his decisions but only in an adverse, or bad, way.\n\nThe third by Laurence Olivier, who was a great actor, possibly the best there has ever been, and who played Shakespearean roles hundreds of times, is my favourite. You'd think, therefore, that he would know. What he refers to here is the famous 'To be, or not to be' soliloquy where Hamlet is trying to decided whether or not to commit suicide and, as Olivier so succinctly puts it, 'a man who could not make up his mind'.
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...maybe something a little vague but powerful? It's been so long since I read Hamlet.\n\n    It is sometimes said that man makes his own fate. This is perhaps true of Hamlet and Claudius in the Shakespeare classic Hamlet. Both men had some degree of control over their fate, and the fate of others. That they chose not to recognize it is proof of both their self destructive personalites and the genius of playwright William Shakespeare.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello
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Othello was a play written by Shakespeare (Elizabethan England) but I believe he set the play in one of his exotic undefined times/places.\n\nIf you're interested in clothing, an interesting way to approach this paper might be to contrast costuming - I'm guessing the film version titled Othello probably uses traditional Shakespearean costuming while the "O" probably uses modern clothing?