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Essay Instructions: ESSAY ASSIGNMENT (DUE APRIL 25th)


DIRECTIONS: Choose one of the following topics and write an MLA style essay of 3-4 pages. Your paper should be typed, double spaced, and should have a one inch margin. Please use Times New Roman 12 point font.


1. Defend or refute this statement: Emilia?s opinion about betrayal expresses a contemporary view of the relationship between the sexes.


2. Othello was a noble man with many faults. What was his main fault, the fault to which we can attribute his murder of Desdemona? Write an argumentative paper defending your view.

Essay Instructions: Respond to one of these questions in a brief essay (text Goodnight Desdemona Good Morning Juliet by Ann Marie Macdonald, only use this as reference if needed)
1. MacDonald employs both verbal and physical comic devices in Act
III, scene iv. Identify two of each and evaluate their relative success.


2. In Act II, scene ii, MacDonald?s Iago enters carrying two buckets
of filth. Discuss the dramatic and thematic purposes of this device.


3. Compare the language and style of Constance?s soliloquy at the end
of Act I, scene i (from ?Regina. . .? to ?. . .the world a favor?) with
the language and style of her soliloquy at the end of Act III, scene i
(from ?Thank God? to ?a convent around here somewhere?).

techniques and devices, imitation of acts, protagonist, conflict,plot
structure, image patterns, tragedy and comedy of the drama, comic
effect,thematic function of props.

Essay Instructions: This is a final assessment of a module about English Literature at a university. Students are required to write an essay of 2500-3000 words on the topic as follows,

According to the English Literature "Othello" written by Shakespeare -

Discuss why Iago is able to connvince Othello of Desdemona's infidelity.

Addidtional requirements:

Students must argue fromt textual evidence that is about as well chosen as it can be and demonstrate the points made excellently. Students have to argue from the evidence with exactitude and origniality.The essay has unity: that is minor points build to one major point, the thesis.

Essay Instructions: Write an essay about the theme of Jealousy in the play of Othello by
Shakespeare. Discuss how jealousy affects each other character in the play.

Suggestion of an example in essay:
1. Discuss how jealousy affects each other character in the play such as
Desdemona, Cassio, Roderigo, Emilia, Othello, and Iago.
2. The emotion jealousy brings about the down- fall of many characters in
Othello but none suffer so much as Othello because of his view of himself
as an outsider.
3. Discuss an argument about jealousy in each character in the play. Agree
or not agree with it. Why?

Few sentence of the point of view:
What effect did this jealousy have on you?
What surprised you about this play?
What questions do you still want answered? (Curiosity, Is Iago have a
tendency of homosexual to Othello)

Specific requirements:
a. Must incorporate a minimum of 3 critical sources in addition to the play
itself, and Othello Navigator.
b. Must use correct MLA style documentation, including a correct Works
Cited page.
c. For citation reference, use the act, scene, and line numbers