In my essay, I will be exploring the devices and language used by Shakespeare to present flaws of characters in the play ‘Othello’; I will also be doing this for two of Robert Browning’s poems I have analyzed which are ‘the Laboratory-Ancien Regime’ and ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’. Flaws are used to dictate what will happen further on in each piece. Shakespeare shows one of Othello’s flaws to be pride which is best displayed in his objectification of Desdemona. This is shown in the quote “I am charged withal-I won his daughter”. We can see that Othello is talking of winning Brabantio’s daughter, Desdemona, as if she is an item and by saying “I won” is to reiterate it is his success and showing his status as well as pride. This is why I believe this is one of Othello’s own personal flaws, which has an adverse effect on the rest of the play. Through cuckoldry, Othello’s sense of pride leads him to become humiliated. This is why I believe objectification is a device used to show Othello’s’ pride which is his flaw. In Robert Browning’s poem ‘the Laboratory-Ancien Regime’ he shows one of the narrator’s flaws to be jealousy which is used to decide what will happen in the poem. “He is with her, and they know that I know”. We know that the narrator is implying that she is being betrayed by her lover. As a result the narrator plans on making a poison that will kill this woman. Jealousy has caused her to want to poison this woman because she is jealous of her lover’s wanting of the other woman. “For only last night, as they whispered, I brought my own eyes to bear on her so”. The use of the word ‘whispered’ implies the narrator believes that the two are in a close relationship as whispering is normally an intimate thing between two people. By saying that the narrator witnessed the two whispering to each other and stared at them is showing her jealous flaw again. Shakespeare uses soliloquies to show Iago’s’ intentions and plans to the audience. The audience learn of his plot of betrayal by using Othello’s flaws against him. Shakespeare’s use of dramatic irony is his way of reveal