Exploring Act 1, Scene 3 of ‘Othello’
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I can explore how Othello's character is established in Act 1, Scene 3.
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Epithets are used to establish how characters are perceived by one another and society.
Othello is established as calm, powerful and eloquent, which makes his later disturbance all the more shocking.
Visually, Othello is an outsider but morally he embodies all that would be seen as respectable, chivalrous and moral.
Othello's honourable speech contrasts the way in which Iago presented him as boastful.
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