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Shakespeare Uses the Devil, Adam and Eve to Help Define Humanity in Othello
In William Shakespeare’s, Othello, the author uses several references from the Christian religion in his effort to define what it means to be human. Shakespeare strives to define humanity and what it means for the characters. They struggle against the ....
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.... lack of competence in romantic relationships that had not been clearly evidenced until this scene. The temptation to blame Desdemona and hide his incompetence, reveals to the audience a weakness that Othello had previously tried to mask. Cassio is tempted by Iago as well. At first rejecting the offers to drink, he soon succumbs to Iago’s manipulations. Once he is drunk he even proclaims, “O though invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!” 1 Cassio is known to be an excellent and loyal soldier, however, his tolerance for alcoh ....
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