Comments:Remember, your essay has to have an opening paragraph that ends with a question, and then you answer that question in the conclusion. Right now, you’re just giving away your conclusion in the introduction. So just rework the end of your introduction to be something closer to “Which author uses violence more effectively?”Proofread. You spell a number of words incorrectly, for example (including “Casio” for “Cassio”).Don’t say “William” and “Marjane” — say “Shakespeare” and “Satrapi.”Don’t summarize the works. I know what happens in them. Analyze the works. Quote a few lines and then talk about how Shakespeare uses particular words in particular ways, or talk about a particular detail in an image in Satrapi.Don’t repeat yourself. Once you’ve made a point, keep moving. The penultimate paragraph is a good example of a simple point that you repeat and stretch out. Watch the grammar. Here’s a comma splice sentence: “She is not in a position to explain the genesis of the war, Marjane aims at presenting the traumatic memory of the war, but she does not do that effectively.” You use that comma after “war” to push together two separate sentences.
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Violence in Persepolis and Othello
Violence is an emotion that is experienced by humans at some points of their lives.
Othello by William Shakespeare and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi employ violence to reveal
themes and motifs. The two stories have employed brutality; however, William seemingly uses it
widely and more effectively as compared to Satrapi. Violence in Othello can be found in several
ways, which are revealed physically, mentally, and verbally. The tragic drama artistically proves
how jealous and envious behaviors can have power over one’s reasoning and humanity, leading
them to wreak havoc among other people. Persepolis, on the other side, incorporates violence in
the story in some ways. The historical body count of the people who pass on during the war is
huge. The two books have used brutality, but William in Othello employs it more adequately.
Effectively has been defined to be what is successful or achieving a specific goal, the goal being,
passing a message, and highlighting themes. This essay will explore how effectively William
Shakespeare used violence in Othello, and how less effectively has Marjane used violence in
Persepolis.
Othello is a tragic play; it employs violence in propelling its central theme of tragedy,
pain, and suffering. The story shows many examples of brutality and tops it with a display on
how mental violence can catalyze physical brutality. The brutality revolves around Iago. The
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writer effectively takes us through the process of building up rage, which Iago undergoes. He
feels that Othello ignored him and did not accord him respect and recognition when he failed to
make him the lieutenant. Iago persuades Casio to get drunk even though he was not for the idea;
he ends up fighting Roderigo, an instance which Iago seems to enjoy (Shakespeare 10). After the
insult, Casio gets dismissed as the lieutenant, something which leads to his mental insanity and
turns him violent. The writer here effectively employs one character to stir anger and violence
among other characters, and the flow continues until it gets out of hand.
The situation elaborated above gives Iago the chance to plan for the fall of Othello
through Desdemona. Cassio turned to a mental wreck after getting fired and talked to Iago about
his trauma. Iago promises him that he can help him get back his post through Desdemona. He
convinces him to engage Desdemona and speak freely to her about convincing her husband to
give back his job. Cassio accepts, and while he talks to her, Iago goes to Othello and works
towards making him doubt the trust of his wife. Effectively is the word here, William uses Iago
to present violence and unrest among the other characters of the play. He takes us step by step,
showing us how the violence and tragedy are conceived, bore, and catalyzed (Shakespeare 49).
Persepolis, on the other side, shows brutality from a general view, it seems ordinary and
widespread, but the writer does not take us on a journey of how the violence is build up (Satrapi
298).
Othello, from the beginning of the story, is seemingly a peaceful man. However, Iago
feeds him with so many lies about his wife and Cassio, he knew Cassio to be a nice man, but
with the trickster capabilities of Iago, he begins to ponder the possibility of his wife cheating on
him with Cassio. Iago paints himself as the good guy, and Othello ends up detesting Cassio. He
keeps feeding Othello with lies about his wife, and this turns Othello into a violent man mentally.
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He begins to picture violent scenarios in his mind about his wife, these thoughts move to beliefs,
and now, he is fully convinced that his wife cheats on him (Shakespeare 68). After discovering
the handkerchief, he becomes mentally unstable and violent.
Persepolis is told from the view of a young girl. The flow follows her perception of Iran
during the era of the Islamic revolution. In a memoir, she expresses the violence that people
experienced. She addresses the actual abuse, and the violence she imagined was happening to
prisoners and soldiers, which she overheard people speaking about in the city. The tension that
came along with the war forced citizens to endure so much pain and suffering. The story is so
disturbing, considering the story is told from the perspective of a child (Satrapi 256). Generally,
the story covers the traumatic experiences the Iranians suffered during the war.
Marji is a young girl and does not understand the events fully due to her young age. She
is not in a position to explain the genesis of the war, Marjane aims at presenting the traumatic
memory of the war, but she does not do that effectively. She is very general about the war and
does not go to details about its genesis. The story is about violence but does not bring forth the
theme of violence as artistically, as William does in Othello, Marjane seems to lack insight into
the reality of the war and the violence (Satrapi 213). The flow of the story is not systematic on
the causes of the violence, the kickoff, the exact occurrences, and the real ending.
In conclusion, I would say that William Shakespeare, in Othello, effectively uses
violence while Marjane in Persepolis, fails in effectively using violence. William introduces
brutality in all angles, emotional, mental, and physical while giving a step by step analysis on
how the brutality advances and leads to tragedy. Marjane, on the other side, uses the perspective
of a young girl who witnessed the war and did not have a clear picture of how the battle went
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down. She seems shallow, and although the book is about war, she fails in employing the theme
of violence artistically and effectively.
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Works Cited
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. Jonathan Cape, 2006, pp. 200-340.
Shakespeare, William. Othello. Library Of Alexandria, 1975, pp. 1-91.
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