Damiao seems to be a cut and dried main character, but he is riddled with mystery. He must make crucial choices, but still remains a cowardly character. Damiao’s personality, relationship, and choice play a big part in defining him.
Throughout the story, Damiao demonstrates many qualities of his personality, but they do not show him changing in anyway. He tends to have plenty of negative qualities from being powerless, cowardly, and a potential manipulator. Damiao seems to be a static or flat character all through the story. As most protagonists (main characters) in a story go through a change, whether positive or negative, Damiao does not seem to go through any change.
At the beginning of the story, Damiao seems to be a gutless, weak person
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Damiao goes to Sinha Rita for shelter and guidance at a critical time but hesitates and refuses to help Lucretia in her dire need of help.
However, under that weak, hypocritical nature, Damiao can be seen as a manipulator. A type of manipulative behavior that Damiao displays throughout the story is a false innocence act; wherein he claims a personal victimization because he was sent to this school. However, perhaps, he feigns a feeble nature in order to get what he wants.
When Damiao comes to Sinha Rita he was “trembling, scarcely able to speak”, yet when Joao Carneiro came to confront Sinha Rita about her demands, Damiao is able to breathe again, but is still “disheartened” (Assis 912). This disheartened nature could be because he has not yet obtained what he wanted. When Damiao hands the rod to Sinha Rita, he has “an uneasy sense of guilt”, but his desire to get out of seminary school overcomes his wish to protect Lucretia
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Damiao is given the responsibility of choice when he decides to run away from seminary school. He does not realize that he was influencing the bigger picture of many peoples’ lives: from his dad and godfather wanting to see him prosper in seminary school and possibly become a rector, to straining Sinha Rita and Joao’s relationship, to re-establishing the tremendous influence that Sinha Rita had on Joao, to lowering Lucretia’s trust in people (“The Southern Baptist”).
Damiao was given a choice and was given options from which he was supposed to pick one. His choice is a choice that many would say that they would not make, but when actually faced with the situation would hesitate like he did and choose incorrectly. Damiao’s choices throughout the story drastically affect everyone around him, and none of his choices seem to bring any good results. In a way, Damiao’s choices directly affect the fate of every
Dido is portrayed as a character driven by emotion, and that her actions are out of her control. For example her actions when she discovers that Aeneas is to leave Carthage as Bacchic. This is emphasised even more by the fact that Dido is made to love Aeneas by Venus. It as if Dido has no agency in her life.
In the beginning Othello is seen as a calm collected man when put into an awkward situation, such as being ridiculed by his wife’s father in thinking that Othello has used some sort of magic to gain Desdemona 's infection. Othello’s calm collected ways start to deteriorate after he is convinced by Iago, a deceiving evil man that Desdemona has slept with Cassio. Othello’s self control no longer exist once he is fully convinced that it is in fact true that Desdemona has been unfaithful. His sense of what is real and what is not real is thrown out the window. Othello starts to become extremely jealous of his used to be beloved Cassio, and after considering giving back his spot as liternuanat he denies him that. He starts to become cold and distant towards his wife, and starts to call her out of her name. As Othello continues to lose control the people around him start to doubt his abilities of being able to protect Cyprus, and even his wife starts to doubt him, and agree with her father. No one knows who this man is anymore, he has started to act in an insanely matter. He can longer be his true self and take on the responsibilities of being general as he starts to crack. With Othello being faced with evil, him being calm is no longer an option for him because he can’t face the fact that the person he loves so dearly is cheating on him. Going back the they handkerchief, the symbol of his love for her. Othello seeing Cassio with Desdemona’s handkerchief sets him over the edge becoming truly convinced that his wife has betrayed him. Even when Desdemona and her maid Emila, Iago’s wife, has told him countless times that she has not been unfaithful, he is so far gone from reality that he does not believe either one of them. With the state of mind he’s in he cannot bear the thought of another man touching his wife. Othello and Iago plan to kill Cassio and Desdemona. After he
I’ll make thee an example” Only because Desdemona has been awaken he will do harm. Desdemona is shown in many different ways in this scene; Iago’s many faces has different opinions of Desdemona; one of sexual desire, one of hate, one of friendlyness. Othello is deeply in love with her and sees nothing but joy and innocence. Cassio only sees goodness and compliments her in every possible way. Desdemona herself is a young woman but brave, strong and witty; her presence in Cyprus and leaving her father and marrying in secret all show her brave and less innocent side.
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Dido’s emotions have caused her to act like a wounded animal, not thinking about the consequences of her own actions. By being reduced to an animal, Dido has lost all rational thought. Consequently, Dido’s lack of rational thought causes her to begin to ignore other duties she has to fulfill. After she falls in love with Aeneas, Dido disregards the vow that she made to her suitors.
example of him being a static character. Being overconfident led to his downfall because when
Maria’s story from De Nadie, sadly involves her rape after she was robbed. The shame and disgust that followed from the incident is what she carried on her journey. Her anguish and pain is felt after she voiced her wish to be left for dead, explaining that “they killed my happiness”. Furthermore, Maria believed that she couldn’t return to her family anymore, not defiled and broken. Similar to Alejo, a loss of self worth is shown, contributing to the imposed standards and conditions amongst
Throughout the story, Damiao demonstrates many facets of his personality, while he seems to be a static or flat character, not showing too many other emotions than his powerless and cowardly nature; he tends to display a hypocritical and manipulative trait.
Iago’s hatred of Othello and Cassio causes him to seek revenge and he is able to succeed because his victims are too innocent to suspect him. Iago is a Machiavellian Shakespearean character who cunningly convinces his victims of his full moral support and proves his innocence in a way that his victims do not suspect him. When Cassio finishes his conversation with Desdemona about how he will not have his job back, Iago unfolds his mischievous plan against Desdemona when he says that, “so will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all” (Shakespeare, 49). Iago plans to destroy Othello and Desdemona’s marriage by using Desdemona’s kindness toward Cassio against her and make her look unfaithful in front of her noble hu...
In society there are always people who are easily manipulated and possess poor judgment. This leads them to make wrong decisions and negatively affect their lives and the lives of the people around them. The reason for Othello’s tragic downfall was because of his poor judgement, his easily manipulated conscience and his jealousy and obsession with. These traits displayed why Othello was responsible for the play’s tragic outcome.
Desdemona demonstrates weakness in her love for Othello and by taking his abuse. At the beginning of the play, Desdemona feels she must accompany Othello to Cyprus in war. This can be looked at as her being a strong woman, but she truly is not since the real reason she wants to go is because she can not be seperated from Othello. "If I be left behind A moth of peace and he go to the war, The rites for which I love him are bereft me,And I a heavy interim shall support by his dear absence. Let me go with him." (Act 1, scene 3, line 250) She feels that she loves him so much, she can not be alone or without him. This is a trait of the stereotypical damsel. When Othello hits her in public, she does not get angry with him but begins to cry. " 'Tis very much.Make her amends, she
For example, when instead of running and hiding from Desdemona's angry father, he stood his ground and defended his love which won over the court and the audience. However, in the middle of the play as Iago continued to corrupt Othello's mind, Othello's decisions began to have negative repercussions. For instance, after he fired Cassio, this led to Desdemona defending Cassio and further raising Othello's suspicions of her fidelity.
He is not an inanimate character lacking human emotions. He mirrors human qualities that never fade no matter the age of civilization. The Greek values along with mental and physical strength, pride, the quest for legacy, and the struggle to achieve greatness are all values that the human race still embodies today. Like Achilles, other individuals are fighting for values they hold close to them. Just as Achilles fought to defeat the Trojan army, individuals today struggle to achieve their goals and do something bigger than themselves. A person that achieves these goals leaving a legacy, transforms into a