Othello Roderigo goes along with Iago’s sinister plans to alert Brabantio, a Senator and Desdemona’s father, to the fact that his daughter has eloped with Othello, whom they refer to as a “Barbary horse,” and as the “lascivious Moor.” Brabantio is very upset to find her missing. “She deceives me/Past thought!” he says. He then adds, “How got she out? O treason of the blood!” Imagine you are Desdemona, write a note to leave for your parents attempting to persuade them to accept your decision.

love, how my life is right now. you can be loved and can love others. sometimes you dont feel loved right now, dont worry, someone out there is loving you while you are away.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.