Belonging is feeling included and accepted in a group.
Othello marries Desdemona without her father’s permission. He then is sent by the senate, as part of army business, to Cyprus from Venice. Iago swears that he is going to bring Othello down for “sport and profit”. He uses Roderigo to get Cassio demoted, which he does by having Roderigo anger Cassio into attacking Roderigo. Cassio wants to reinstate his name with $#$#0$#$#. Iago encourages Cassio to achieve this through getting Desdemona to put in a good word for him. Unbeknownst to everyone Iago is convincing Othello that Desdemona is unfaithful to him with Cassio. Othello in his jealous rage, caused by Iago, and under the belief that Cassio is going to die, kills Desdemona. It is revealed by Emilia that the handkerchief, which was a key reason behind Othello belief that Desdemona was unfaithful, was actually stolen by her and given to her husband, Iago. Due to this revelation Othello realises what he has done and commits suicide. In Othello, Othello’s separation from is society is because he is black. As part of Iago’s reasoning to the Duke that Othello would be a bad addition to his family is purely because Othello is black. “Your daughter covered with a Barbary horse, you’ll have your nephews neigh to you, you’ll have coursers for cousins, and jennets for germans.” Iago uses animals as a comparison to the type of people that the Duke would then be associated with. Animals would have been seen by the Duke as of a lower status than peasants. Desdemona begins to not belong once she loses the handkerchief, which Othello first gave her. She notices that the handkerchief is what is causing his jealousy. “I ne’er saw this before. Sure there’s some wonder in this handkerchief; I am most unhappy in the loss of it.”(III, iv, 94-96). The handkerchief is the first time that Othello shows his mistrust towards Desdemona, which surprises her because she has never seen him act jealous before. Desdemona has a sudden realisation that something is wrong in her marriage and that somehow the handkerchief has caused a divide between her and Othello. Othello is driving a barrier between himself and the rest of society in his abuse of Desdemona. Lodovico, witnesses Othello attack of Desdemona and in conversation to Iago, says “I am sorry that I am deceived in him” (IV.ii.273). Through persuading Lodovico that Othello is malicious in his treatment of Desdemona he fools another person in hating Othello. The higher people in Venice will have eventually heard about Othello villainy and on his return they would have separated him from their society because he has committed an act against one of their own (Desdemona). Othello will no longer be considered by the senate as “all in all sufficient” (IV.ii.256). Thus driving a further crack between him and the high society, not just is he black but he is an abuser. Zero by Christopher Kezelos (Zealous Creative) Plot In a world where the people are made out of wool and have a number assigned to them, Zeroes are considered the lowest of the low. …show more content…
They aren’t allowed to have children, don’t get hired, are bullied and are found living on the streets.
During a sinister storm, in a gloomy room, another Zero is born. Growing up Zero is treated like much of his kind, he is bullied, abused, refused jobs and living on the street. While struggling he tries to make friends among the Zeroes, but he constantly gets rejected. Then, suddenly, during a heroic effort he saves a Zero getting bashed.
She bandages the wounds he sustained saving her. They form a friendship which soon blossoms into more. Together they go out, to parks and rivers. Throughout their blooming friendship society still rejects them, but that doesn’t matter to them, for what society rejects about them they love about each other.
One day during a date Zero gets dragged away to prison, his girlfriend abandoned, crying. While in prison he creates something of beauty. Whilst in prison a flower gets dropped into his cell. Peering out the gaol window he sees his girlfriend. See gets noticed and while a crowd forms around a miracle occurs. Belonging Zero is the story of a group