Kong Xiong -- Masters and Mistresses


   This is mostly good but there is also more going on here than just the ideas about
   slaves and masters that you discuss.  I was hoping you would see that the Sanlikol opera's
   plot is related to the Shakespeare plot by a series of substitutions or 
   reversals in the Venice-Turkey relationship, or in the basic traits of 
   characters or the relationships between characters, that all have the effect 
   of shining a light on those relationships "from the other side," so to speak.  
   For instance:

      Shakespeare                                Sanlikol

      Venice's "colony" on Cyprus is             Turkey's "colony" on Cyprus
      potentially under attack by Turkey         is potentially under attack by Venice

      Othello is a black Moorish warrior         Sumbul is a black eunuch 
      for Venice                                 who tries to negotiate peace for 
                                                 Turkey
   
      Desdemona is daughter of a senator         Suzan is a slave
 
      Iago is motivated mostly by hate           Frenk Mustapha is motivated
      for Othello (and Cassio)                   mostly by love for Suzan   

   There are several other substitutions or reversals of this type too.    

   I don't know what happened with the version of the paper you submitted, though.
   The text stops in the middle of a sentence on the second page.  It looks as 
   though you might have submitted an earlier draft instead of the finished paper.


   Grade:  85 (B)