The Syntax in Othello or a Mirror of Psychological Overturns

Abstract

The paper is meant as an insight into the syntactic devices displayed into several fragments excerpted from one of the most representative of the Shakespearean plays, namely Othello. The exact purpose is to prove that, in this play, and generally with Shakespeare, syntax goes hand in hand with character psychology, and thus, any abrupt syntactic alteration in the text reflects an alteration in the characters’ state of mind.