othello
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From the extract of Othello's speech in Act One, scene three, lines 127 to 169, Othello reveals how strong minded and persuasive he is towards the audience. In this extract Othello attempts to prove to the Duke, senators and Brabantio that he did not woo Desdemona. It was his courageous past the persuaded her to fall in love with Othello. The Duke, senators and Brabantio suspected that Othello wooed Desdemona with his witchcraft, which she supposedly fell for. In lines 172 to 128, it explains how Desdemona heard the story of Othello in the first place. "Her father lov'd me, oft invited me, Still question'd me the story of my life.." To make this speech effective to the audience, Othello uses many rhetorical/poetic devices, imagery and word repetition.
This speech is constructed in forty lines each containing ten syllables. Shakespeare is very conscious of the meter pattern as he adds adjectives and uses contractions to maintain the ten syllables per line. In lines 133 to 140, he uses descriptive language to describe his unique life story..