{"id":9772,"date":"2023-03-21T03:04:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T03:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/what-is-othellos-tragic-flaw-what-is-it-in-other-words-that-leads-him-to-commit-the-horrendous-crime-or-murdering-his-own-wife-desdemona-use-the-text-to-support-and-develop-your-argument\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T03:04:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T03:04:37","slug":"what-is-othellos-tragic-flaw-what-is-it-in-other-words-that-leads-him-to-commit-the-horrendous-crime-or-murdering-his-own-wife-desdemona-use-the-text-to-support-and-develop-your-argument","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/what-is-othellos-tragic-flaw-what-is-it-in-other-words-that-leads-him-to-commit-the-horrendous-crime-or-murdering-his-own-wife-desdemona-use-the-text-to-support-and-develop-your-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Othello\u2019s tragic flaw? What is it, in other words, that leads him to commit the horrendous crime or murdering his own wife, Desdemona? Use the text to support and develop your argument."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-family: Inter, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">Avoid the five-paragraph essay structure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;Assume that your reader is familiar with the text but is not a part of our class, so don\u2019t refer to the class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;Wherever possible, avoid using the pronouns \u201cI,\u201d \u201cwe,\u201d and especially \u201cyou.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Wherever possible write in the present tense when writing about literary works and film.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;Underline or italicize the title of a full-length work, whether it\u2019s a book, a journal, a newspaper, a&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Inter, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;;\">CD, etc.;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;put the title of a shorter work that is part of a longer work in quotation marks, whether&nbsp;<\/span>it is a story, a poem, an article, a song, etc. (e.g. Othello but \u201cThe Tale of the Hunchback\u201d). But don\u2019t underline or italicize the title of your own essay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>When citing a Shakespeare play, it is convention to do so by act, scene, and line number (e.g.I.iii.38-41). Unless you use blocked quotations, in which case quotations should appear as they do in the text, separate lines of speech with slashes. [e.g. As Othello says, \u201cMy parts, my title, and my perfect soul \/ Shall manifest me rightly\u201d (I.ii.31-32).]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;Quotations of longer than four lines should be blocked off from the rest of your text by single- spacing and indenting them<\/li>\n<li>5 sources required are in the files&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid the five-paragraph essay structure. &nbsp;Assume that your reader is familiar with the text but is not a part of our class, so don\u2019t refer to the class. &nbsp;Wherever possible, avoid using the pronouns \u201cI,\u201d \u201cwe,\u201d and especially \u201cyou.\u201d Wherever possible write in the present tense when writing about literary works and film. &nbsp;Underline or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[186],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=9772"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=9772"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=9772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}