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Love in Othello - Coggle Diagram
Love in Othello
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"If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have wakened death" - Othello
Othello suggests how natural disasters cannot shake his and Desdemona's love! The imagery of 'tempest' is used often by Shakespeare, even in his poem 'Sonnet 116'.
Inferred that though natural disaster cannot shake their love, human intervention can.
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"One who loved not wisely, but too well" - Othello
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In Cinthio's De Gli Hecatommithi, (inspiration text for Othello), the handkerchief is a highly important thing for the protagonists. Signs and symbols in the play are essential in portraying love or infidelity.
Shakespeare suggests that Othello and Desdemona's union breaks the social order via the chaos it brought about.
Love is presented as a destructive force throughout, stemming back to the nae choices Shakespeare implements, 'Demon' - Desdemona, 'Hell' - Othello.