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<p>Magic in the Web. If Humpty Dumpty's sentient, witchcraft can make him fall off the wall and perhaps break his neck By the time William Shakespeare penned the first line of what would become his masterpiece, Othello, The Moor of Venicemagic was already a very old idea. It magic imagery in othello an ancient, ubiquitous, mercurial idea, older than memory, known to Elizabethan England as the shadowy counterfeit of divine grace, the dread traffic of demons, evil spirits, or evil people under their power. In the centuries that followed, science drastically reshaped the landscape of belief, and these fanciful attributions lost their appeal. Finally the advent of psychology gave us a whole new method of understanding man's experience of the supernatural. And yet, here magic imagery in othello a pitfall. How appallingly easy it was to conclude that since devils and all their works were cut from a purely psychological cloth that they consequently had no teeth in the real world, and that magic was nothing but impotent nonsense, a paper-daemon to be sealed in quotation marks, never to be released! This was wrong, as Shakespeare well knew. It is clear at least that his understanding of the real nature of magic far exceeded the wisdom of his age. At a time when Europeans where burning each other alive over charges of witchcraft, Shakespeare was writing Othelloa work which not only anticipates the psychological understanding of magic by over three hundred years, 1 but offers a brilliant object lesson in the actual use of magic, properly understood and practically applied. Through masterly expansion of the theme, Shakespeare opens vistas on the mind which our vocabulary has only recently grown to accommodate. Magic imagery in othello One, Scene Three of Othello is a microcosmic staging of the play's main conflict: the love of two against the scheming of a third. Under the stern eyes of the city fathers, Othello and Desdemona are pleading their case against the malicious rumors that have been circulating. Othello is accused of bewitching Desdemona, of using sorcery to warp her mind and possess her body.</p>

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