Othello Project

10 Ways To Know Your Wife Is Cheating On You (as told by Othello)

Othello, the Moor of Venice, tells readers the ten signs to watch for when you believe you are a cuckold and are suspicious of your wife.

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1.Your wife loses the embroidered handkerchief you gave her. (Act III, Scene IV)

2.Your best friend hears a man crying out for your wife in his sleep and then kisses him. (Act III, Scene III)

3.Your best friend thinks your wife is promiscuous. (All of Othello)

4. Your wife betrayed her father to marry you. (Act I)

5. Your wife goes looking for your second in command. (Act III, Scene IV)

6. The man you believe to be sleeping with your wife is a drunk and starts brawls with other men. (Act II, Scene III)

7. Men that meet with your wife run off when they see you approaching. (Act III, Scene III)

8. Your wife's best friend fervently defends her actions to act as a cover-up. (Act V, Scene II)

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9. Other men hold your wife's hand when you are at sea. (Act II, Scene III)

10. Your wife campaigns for other men to you. (Act III, Scene III)

Exegesis

            For my Othello project, I knew I wanted to incorporate humor. One of the most critical aspects of a highly engaging teacher is the ability to form a marriage between course content and interest, and I believe humor to be a means to do this. After I decided the tone for my project, I decided on the means I would use to complete it. My interest in blogging caused me to create a blog post because I try to write when I have the time. I also considered that a technological project would have zero cost while a project involving arts and crafts supplies would require the use of money. My blog post is written in a BuzzFeed format. I titled the post “10 Ways To Know Your Wife Is Cheating On You (as told by Othello)”. The most interesting thing about my project is that as I was searching the text for ways that Othello was deceived into believing that Desdemona cheated on him I realized that the underlying reason remained the same. Even though Shakespeare wrote this in the early 15^th century, some of the reasons included are still applicable today. I was certain to make sure the ten ways came straight from the text. I included the Act and Scene along with each way to discover your wife is cheating on you. Although this is a humorous project, it assures that the project was grounded in the text. The pictures I included in my blog post were primarily “memes” and comic illustrations of scenes from the play. After putting the images into Google Image search, I was only able to find authors of two of the pictures. I included those credits underneath the pictures. This can be accounted for as most of the pictures were “memes” which can easily be created by using a meme generator.  Overall, my main goal was to have the pictures make my audience, my fellow classmates, laugh, but still be able to recall where in the text the picture was depicting.