Othello Questions Scene 1 Act 1

Cittori Stateler
Coulson
English 10
March, 16, 2014

1) Looking back at Act 1 of scene 1 in the play write Othello, you get multiple impressions of both Desdemonia and Othello. Desdemonia I viewed as a very innocent young lady, that truly has a very rebellious and daring side to her. She, like any girl, has the pressure of finding the right guy, being the ideal wife, and representing her family in a good way. Othello on the other hand gives me that impression of a very likable guy, who is able to get the "ladies". Othello and Desdemonia seem to be in love but as the reader Othello seems like he could possible be a guy that would use her due to her like ability and innocence.

2) The biggest controversy in the play so far is the idea of Desdemonia and Othello being in love, but the fact that Desdemonia's father wants her to marry another man. Her father doesn't believe that Othello is the right man for her, and because of the fact that most marriages where set up he believes that he has a day in who she ultimately ends up with.

3) The phrase "second hand information is reliable" is greatly emerging in Othello. In this play, Desdemonia's father gets all of his information on Othello from other people and he believes it. In reality though this information may not be true, this information isn't really information, it is the opinions of other in which Desdemonia's father ends up belie being even though he should ultimately find out what Othello is like for himself.

Blog #1 Animal Farm

               The idea of "guilt an blame" is shown throughout the entire book of Animal Farm. Guilt and blame is mostly used in order for someone to make another feel self shame over themselves and empathy for another.
               In chapter six of Animal Farm the pigs sleep in beds. When the others try to comment on it the pigs put them on a huge guilt trip, making them think that they deserve to sleep in the beds. This is shown as Neopolian states that "you would not have us too tired to Cary on our duties? You surely do not want Jones back?"(67). This is a huge wave of guilt for the other animal cause in persuading then he makes them feel like it takes a lot of energy to be the leader of the farm. Neopolean's way of putting them through guilt mainly works because he makes them feel guilty for doubting the reasoning for sleeping in beds and noting that if the pigs weren't to get a good nights rest that they couldn't properly 'work' and in the end jones would come back an it would be all their fault. This idea is also hugely used when placing the blame on Snowball for destroying the windmill.He used this tactic in order to make snowball seem like the lesser pig (person) and himself like the stronger one.
             All around this concept is used, whether it has to do with large problems or even that of siblings blaming stuff on each other. Although in our world guilt comes from a variety of things it can also come from blame, closely intertwining the two.