Sona RamnaniEN10258Professor Blumberg2/20/12Journal #7Othello, by William Shakespeare was written in Shakespeare’s great tragic period.The play has themes of heroism, love, hell, demons and monsters. In High School, senioryear, the English departments reading theme was Religion and Heroism. We read novelslike Siddhartha and at one point went very deeply in Shakespeare’s Othello.When reading Othello, for the second time in College, developing a difficultyessay on a quote of phrase was the difficulty. Going so deep into this play senior year,makes reading this particular place from Shakespeare like common knowledge.Personally, when first reading this play however, I do remember some of my difficulties.The language was mostly unbearable. I personally do not like to read Shakespeare, thelanguage isn’t something that I enjoy reading and analyzing because if one misses a keyquote then the whole story could be thrown off. Also, when first reading the story I
