Bianca has a very few lines in Shakespeare's play Othello. What purpose does she serve?
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She is just an added character that shakespear uses to raise doubt in othello.
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It depends. If you mean the Laurence Olivier version, then it was the way that Othello was portrayed. Which was in the sense of a mindless buffoon who was so feeble minded that he fell prey to the crafty devices of the wily Iago. \n\nIf you mean the version which starred Kenneth Branagh and Laurence Fishbourne, well, actually I liked that version. Fishbourne makes Othello actually more likable. It is easier to see the insecurities of the character, and how easily Iago is able to play on those insecurities. \n\nIn effect, Othello is a man who is on the outside of society. His acceptance into the society is through his military prowess, but he comes out of his place and marries Desdemona. The truth is that, Othello is unsure of where he belongs and therefore he is unable to accept that she loves him. It is not Iago who destroys Othello. He does that for himself.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone\n\nread something
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Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/romeo-and-juliet/\n\nI have found 12 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nNotes:  Act 1 Scene 2.\n\nIn this brief scene, the audience learns more about Juliet, the heroine of the play who has not yet been introduced on the stage. She is young girl of fourteen and obviously Capulet's pride and joy. The father says of Juliet that "the earth has swallowed all hopes but she." When Paris asks Capulet for her hand in marriage, he hesitates at first; then he says that he will agree if the idea pleases Juliet. In the thirteenth century, when noble marriages were usually arranged by the family, it is a loving father who wants to please his child. His concern for Juliet is similar to the concern for Romeo revealed by Lady Montague in the first scene. Even though these families hate one another, they dearly love their children.  More…….\n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/romeo5.asp\n\n\nhttp://summarycentral.tripod.com/romeoandjuliet.htm\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=363\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Romeo+And+Juliet+\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Romeo+And+Juliet+\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Romeo\n\nhttp://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/RomJul/index.htm\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/romeoandjuliet001.html\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Characters\n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/romeojl11.asp\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello
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shakesphere's sonnets were written for ladies he loved and wanted to seduce. that is a point of a sonnet to impress the beloved and seduce them the thing is no one knows who he wrote them for because there were so many ladies he wrote them to and no one knows which specific sonnet was for whom
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Well, my friend did a paper about this actually and bent my ear about it. Basically what she said was Shakespear only had one Jew in his plays, and that was Shylock from the Merchant of Venice. and the answer she came up with was, maybe. there is not enough evidence to say one way or another if he was racist.
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Well, basically, so she can speak her lines.  \n\nThe voice is the basic element of expression that the actor has.
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I can't really say because we read it in play form in my English class and I played Tybalt so I kinda feel like I shouldn't dis him.\n\nI don't have the play right in front of me but I think he's arranged for them to get married but this will later become Wednesday after Juliet apologizes to Capulet for being so against him; he thought it was because of Tybalt's death but it was because Romeo was banished for killing Tybalt.\n\nHe describes her as still beautiful even though she may be dead (which she isn't). He says something about the color of roses not being gone from her lips or something like that.\n\nThe agony Romeo and Juliet's death caused their families was tremendous and showed their families that fighting was not the answer to things. The loss of one's only child is not worth the dumb excuse of fighting between families.\n\nShakespeare never gave anyone birthdates in the play since it didn't really matter, but we can estimate that Romeo was about 17 or 18 from accounts of historians who examined the play with great care.
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To please James Ist of England and 4th of Scotland who had recently succeeded Elizabeth. The play includes\na. witchcraft which James hed written on in a short book.\nb. 'proof' that James was the legitimate air of Banquo in the play in the witches' pronouncememnts: the line of kings reflected in the glass represents James' ancestors.\nc. A scene showing the healing powers of being a good king. Note the allusions of sickness surrounding Macbeth with the air of goodness around Banquo and Malcolm.(English scenes, Act 4). Note also the play includes two physicians. Goodness, health and a legal King go together.\nIn the unstable situation following the huge succession doubts at the end of E1R's reign, a play demonstrating James right to rule would have been warmly welcomed.\nThe irony that James was certainly dissolute, probably homosexual and certainly not a nice person means he certainly needed all the help he could get (and no one wanted a return to the ping-pong religious faddists pre-Elizabeth.)\nThe chaos and evil Shakespeare generates in this play : unparalleled in his output, may hold up the mirror to England of what an Unstable government might mean, especially as the gunpowder plot had tried to do just this.
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shakespearean allusion is common in the text (look at the title: “Oh brave new world that has such people in it...” from The Tempest), also utopian irony ... try that for starters
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There is a specifc spot in the text that describes Queen Mab 0 it's probably about 50 lines long - she is the queen of dreams, and basically put the equivilant of sleeping dust on sleepers - giving them dreams - but she tries to give them dreams they want, or dreams that willhelp them (eg the solider dreams od battle, so that he wont be scared to fight).  She is tiny, her carriage is some sort if nut i think, like an acorn shell, but it describes it right in the text - this passage is often discussion in reference to fantasy/magic, while the Baz Lurhman version of the movie equates Queen Mab with the drug ecstasy, so a rather interesting interpretation. good luck finding the correct passage! once you find it, it's all there!
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Othello by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/othello/\n\nI have found 12 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=319\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Othello\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xOthello.html#Othello\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/othello001.html\n\nTHE ROMANTIC IAGO\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/iago001.html\n\nAntagonist \n\nIago, Othello�s ensign, is the antagonist of the play. He exploits Othello�s weakness, bringing out his fatal flaw of jealousy and making him believe that Desdemona and Cassio are having an affair. During the course of the play, Iago kills Roderigo and Emilia, his wife; and he stabs Cassio, wounding his leg. His evil scheming leads to the deaths of Desdemona and Othello. \n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmOthello04.asp\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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One of the reasons that Iago is considered among the greatest villians in Shakespeare, if not Western Literature, is his lack of any real motivation.  The SparksNotes page below does a nice job, however, of providing passages with insight into your question.  As there is no single answer you can use passages in the play to support many different thesis.
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Tybalt's death turns the play to a tragedy.\n\nThings are going great for Romeo. He's just married Juliet, the love of his life. Everything is perfect until about an hour or so after his wedding to Juliet, when he kills Tybalt.\n\nPer the Prince's decree in Act I, Scene i, anyone caught engaging in a civil brawl will be put to death. Romeo should be killed. Instead, Prince Escalus exiles him. Here's where everything starts going wrong.\n\nJuliet gets sad and wants to kill herself. Her daddy wants her to marry Count Paris. Everything sucks. So she goes to see Friar Lawrence, who gives her the potion which will make her appear dead.\n\nUnfortunately, Romeo does not receive the Friar's message that Juliet is just faking her death. He thinks she has really died. He goes to her tomb and quaffs the poison. When Juliet wakes up, she finds Romeo dead. Despite Friar Lawrence's protest, she refuses to leave and stabs herself with the dagger.\n\nThe play is a tragedy because it has an unhappy ending and because the heroes (Romeo and Juliet) are brought down by their fatal flaws (their immaturity and impatience).
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Well I honsetly think that you should read Romeo and Juilet. It is one of the best from Shakespear. I know that sometimes Shakespear is hard to read because it is in old english, but I have become good at deicphering Shakespear so...\n1. In act 3, the tension between the 2 familes comes to a climax. Romeo and Tybalt fight and Tybalt and Mercutio die. \n2. Romeo tires to ignore Tybalt because he doesnt want to be in trouble. Ironically, thats what happens. Also he doesnt want to disgrace Juliet. \n3. Romeo is angry about the fight because first, he killed Tyablt and he is banished from the city. That means he will never see his beloved Juliet again. \n4. The nurse is cruel to Juliet because she wants her to get over Romeo and his departure. The nurse always knew what would happen if Romeo and Juliet were to marry.\n5. Well the nurse and the friar arrange to have Romeo sneak into Juliets room for one last night together. \n6. Juliet believes that Romeo will die\n7. Lady Capulet says that she needs to continue to mourn her cousins death, although that is not what she is really mourning. Lady Capulet also thinks that Juliet needs to move on with life.\n8. Romeos departure\n9. I dont know that reason. \n10. Juliet is devistated and does not want to marry. She refuses to and her father disowns her. \n11. To go to Friar Lawernce and figure out a plan\n12. To drink potion that would make her sleep deelpy and long enough to convince people that she is dead. Once she is placed in the tomb, she will run to whereever Romeo is staying.
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I'm not sure I understand your question exactly, but if you are asking who has control over who, in the entire play, then you're asking the million dollar question. Scholars have argued this many different ways for a long time, but essentially, the if there is one true master of control it has to be Iago, who after getting passed up for a military promotion over the Moor Othello, Iago befriends Othello and skillfully, bit by bit convinces him that his pretty wife, Desdemona, who happens to be white, is cheating on him. Conflicted, Othello ends up killing her only to later realize what Iago was doing to him. \n\nIago is one Shakepeare's greatest villian, a dispicable characther that controls all the action in Othello.  So does that answer your question?