William+M+Othello

__Light And Dark Appearing In //Othello//__
 * THESIS || Throughout the play of __Othello__ by William Shakespeare, the motif of light and dark is utilized by many different characters in many different ways to represent light and dark, day and night, and love and hate. ||
 * [[image:Black_Vengeance.jpg width="480" height="360" align="center"]] || This image is appropriate with the play __Othello__ because Othello says “Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!” (III.3.507) Because it is a black, fiery skull rising up from some unknown place, most likely an evil place, it is appropriate for what Othello is saying to Iago in Act III. Othello says this because he is so angry and so mad at Desdemona for supposedly cheating on him that he wants his "black vengeance" to rise and he wants to take all of his anger out on Desdemona and/or Cassio. Later in the play we find out that Othello does take his anger out by killing Desdemona.  ||
 * [[image:chsroccoenglish11/Othello_Motif_Day_and_Night.jpg width="490" height="390" align="center"]] || This image is appropriate to represent the motif Light and Dark in __Othello__ because it shows exactly what the motif is saying, light and dark. It’s also representing how Emilia responds to Desdemona after she says that she would never cheat on Othello even if it meant he get what he wanted, “Nor I neither by this heavenly light;/ I might do't as well i' the dark.” (IV.3.74-76) Emilia is saying that she would not cheat on Iago during the day, but at night she would if it meant he could get what he wanted and he could be happy. ||
 * [[image:chsroccoenglish11/Othello_Motif_Candle_Blown_Out.jpg width="480" height="480" align="center"]] || This image is appropriate for when Othello says, “Put out the light, and then put out the light...I know not...[the] heat/ That can thy light relume.” (V.2.7-13) This image is so appropriate for this quote by Othello because it shows a candle, a form of light and heat, being blown out, or in other terms being put out. This image is also appropriate for the motif of Light and Dark because it shows a form of, what used to be, light, representing life. But since the candle's flame is being blow out, it is showing darkness, representing death. ||