Character Analysis: Mrs. Flowers

Mrs. Bethers Flowers: the woman who changed my life.

Mrs. Flowers is an aristocrat, someone to be admired. She is the most refined, educated woman who spends her days sat in front of roaring fireplaces, sipping tea endlessly from silver trays full of luxury treats of scones and crumpets. I look up to her. She seems almost unrealistic; like an adored character out of a book rather than living, breathing human being. But me on the other hand?? Pfft…well, I’m just a shy, odd-looking girl. Im like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible. Stale. Mouldy. whatever you want to call it, I’m just the opposite of the divine Mrs. Flowers. I would just kill to be her.

Mrs. Flowers is like no other.
Mrs. Flowers helped me. she helped me through dark times, time where i was was tired and weary from pretending. She helped me when I was hiding behind a mask that began to grow thin and frayed around the

Othello links to part 4 of our course. However, this task also ties into part 1 of the course: social and professional status/race because Othello is being discriminated against for being a black man, despite his high position and power over most characters in the play.

I have chosen to write this task in the form of a letter from Othello to Iago in order to convey a strong sense of emotion and feeling which truly shows the nature of each character. My aim is to emphasise Iago’s manipulative nature by showing how distraught Othello is purely by his words, and how insecure Othello is in himself for being so convinced about Desdemona’s unfaithfulness without evidence. In this letter Othello shows true vulnerability through his transparentness to Iago.

Conclusively, I believe a letter format can portray a good understanding of the characters and their true feelings and intentions. It gives the audience an in-depth perspective on each of the