The Personality of Othello Essay -- GCSE Coursework Shakespeare Othell

The Personality of Othello Othellos speech to Brabantio and the Duke in Act 1, Scene 3 is of major importance in describing Othellos personality. This long speech, launch in lines 149 to 196, shows Othello for the first time as a person with depth and less as a soldier. This speech is important to the book as a whole because it is a testimony to the strength of the love between Othello and Desdemona, which will later play a major role in the plot. It is also iodine of the first times that we see Othello trying to influence his audience with his words. The speech given by Othello is intended to convince Brabantio that Desdemona is with him willfully, and not by spells and medicines bought of montebanks (line 74). Her father love me, oft invited me,Still questioned me the story of my lifeFrom year to yearthe (battles,) sieges, (fortunes)That I have passed.I ran it through, even from my boyish daysTo th very moment that he bade me tell it,Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chancesOf moving accidents by flood and field,Of hairbreadth scapes i th imminent deadly breachOf being taken by the insolent foeAnd portance in my travelers history,Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,Rough quarries, rocks, (and) hills whose (heads) touch heaven,It was my hint to speaksuch was my processAnd of the cannibals that each (other) eat,The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads(Do grow) beneath their shoulders. These things to visitWould Desdemona seriously incline.But still the house affairs would draw her (thence,)Which ever as she could with haste dispatchShed come again, and with a greedty earDevour up my discourse. Which I, observing,Took once a pliant hour, and found good meansT... ...hakespeares Othello. Ed. Anthony G. Barthelemy Pub. Macmillan New York, NY 1994. Bartels, Emily C. Strategies of submission Desdemona, the Duchess, and the assertion of desire Studies of English Literature Spring 1996 (Online) accessed. April 27 1999 http//www. Galileo pechnet.edu Bloom, Har old. Introduction Modern precise Interpretations, Othello Ed. Harold Bloom, Pub. Chelsea House New Haven CT 1987. Jones, Eldred. Othello- An Interpretation Critical Essays on Shakespeares Othello. Ed. Anthony G. Barthelemy Pub. Macmillan New York, NY 1994. Neely, Carol. Women and Men in Othello Critical Essays on Shakespeares Othello. Ed. Anthony G. Barthelemy Pub. Macmillan New York, NY 1994. Snyder, Susan. Beyond the Comedy Othello Modern Critical Interpretations, Othello Ed. Harold Bloom, Pub. Chelsea House New Haven CT 1987.