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Iago And Othello
1,231 wordsIago, More than Just a Villain Iago, the evil villain of Shakespeare's Othello, is more than just a villain. In many ways he is the most intelligent and appealing character in the play. Iago shows superiority over the rest of the characters in the play. He has the ability to manipulate the characters in the play, therefore controlling the play with every sequence of events. His intelligence shines through his ability to deceive, his ability to, and his ability to twist the truth. Iago is appeali...
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Othello And Desdemona With His Inhuman Acts
453 wordsUltimate Villain In the movie, Othello, the Moor of Venice, I found the play very tragic and sad. It is a love story filled with lies, deception and betrayal. This movie deals with a couple in love played by Othello and Desdemona. Both of them from the beginning have to fight and struggle to stay together. Iago, a young Venetian, who pretends to be Othello's friend happens to be the viper, that ultimately destroys Othello and Desdemona with his inhuman acts. Iago's first act of deception was whe...
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Iago S Hatred Of Othello
1,582 wordsIn the historical tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare there is a great show of hate and dislike toward Othello by Iago. Why does Iago have such hate for the Moor Through analyzing Iago's character the answer to this question can be found. Iago develops hatred toward Othello for a variety of reasons. Not only is Othello dark skinned, but he also did not give the lieutenancy to Iago. Iago suspects that Othello slept with his wife, Emilia, and he also suspects Cassio of doing the same. Another r...
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Appearance Vs Reality Othello Iago
660 words" I am not what I am". What is Iago? Iago's actual personality is quite distant from what he pretends to be. In Shakespeare's Othello, the reader is presented the classic battle between good and evil. It is these forces of evil that ultimately lead to the breakdown of Othello. Othello's breakdown results in the murder of his wife Desdemona. Desdemona is representative of the good in nature. Good can be defined as forgiving, honest, innocent and unsuspecting. The evil contained within Othello is ...
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Othello As Valiant Othello Iago's First Plan
695 wordsIago cannot bear Othello's being a superior figure. Iago comments on Othello's going to war as 'Another of his fathom they have none / To lead their business. ' (lines 153-154) Iago insults Othello's skin color profusely behind his back. As the first part of his plan, Iago seeks to arouse Brabantio to the fact that the Moor has 'robbed' (line 88) him of his daughter. Iago refers to Othello as an 'old black ram / t upping your white ewe. ' This tasteless reference pictures Othello's ugly black sk...
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Othello Stabs Iago
558 wordsPeople are not always the way you see them to be. Within the play Othello by William Shakespeare, a character named Iago displays a very good example of this. Iago who is Othello's ensign is considerate to people although at the same time manipulates their minds into thinking different things other than what had really occurred. Therefore, the victims of Iago's mischievous acts had been lured in to gullibility at every corner. In Act I, Iago had used his 'magic' on Roderigo who was very upset up...
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Othello And Iago
973 wordsOthello: Summary Othello is a tense, closely-knit play, with an ever-increasing emotional scene. The character Iago, Othello's ancient, is the cause of all the tragedy which comes to pass as the play progresses. He is a manipulator, opposing Othello not directly, but through other characters whom he tricks. From his actions throughout the play one sees that Iago was gifted at using other people, to further his own schemes. Act One, Scene One is the most important because it foreshadows the whole...
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Foil Othello And Desdemona's Marriage
863 wordsThe play begins with Rodrigo reprimanding Iago for not doing his job. Rodrigo is paying Iago to pursue Desdemona for him, and he has just learned that she has eloped with Othello. Iago reassures Rodrigo that the plan will eventually work because he himself is motivated to bring Othello down; Othello promoted Michael Cassio to lieutenant rather than Iago, and Iago believes that he was more deserving of the promotion. Iago starts his plan by telling Rodrigo to try and foil Othello and Desdemona's ...
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Iago As The Hero Of Othello Roderigo
1,188 wordsIago as the Hero of Othello Roderigo, a soldier in Othello's army, is in love with Desdemona and is deceived by Iago into thinking that Desdemona holds some affection for him. Iago, who is Othello's ancient or his counselor, desires to hold Othello's position and so tries to devise a plan to become general. As proved by the outcome of the play, Othello was too naive and kindhearted to properly lead an army. Iago felt that he should have been promoted to be Othello's lieutenant but Cassio was pro...
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Iago Cries To Brabantio
281 wordsDifferent people have different opinions of the motives of Iago, in the play "Othello", by one William Shakespeare. Colerige famously said that Iago acted with a "motiveless malignity", or a pure hate of Othello and everything that he did. Others have disagreed with the author of perhaps the most famous critical analysis of Othello. They have suggested that he acted out of pure sexual jealousy, out of a envy of Othello's rank and class, or out of pure racism. Perhaps the most arguable case again...
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Heinous As Iago's Sin Against Othello
1,038 wordsAfter reading Shakespeare's play OTHELLO you have to ask yourself is Othello as much a victim as he is a murderer? An assumption may be that because Othello kills his wife after the devious behavior of Iago, then maybe Othello is a victim of Iago's evil. Some may argue that the sin of Iago to plot the down fall of the moor, is worse because it becomes a calculating mind compared to Othello's sin because he has become a pawn in Iago's hands. However, it is noticed that Othello allows himself to b...
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Iago's Plan Of Deception
594 wordsIn the play Othello the most interesting character is Iago, who is commonly called and known as 'Honest Iago. ' Ironically, this could not be farther from the truth. Through some carefully thought-out words and actions, Iago is able to manipulate others to do things in a way that benefits and moves him closer to his own goals. He is smart and an expert at judging the characters of others. Because of this, Iago pushes everyone to their tragic end. Iago wants vengeance on Othello so he targets his...
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Iago's Hatred Of Othello
814 wordsEvery good play has a great villain. Othello by William Shakespeare is no exception. In writing Othello, Shakespeare took characters he had gotten from an Italian short story, and developed them further. I would not say Shakespeare created Iago, but he definitely made Iago the evil man that everyone knows him to be. Iago may be one of the greatest villains of all time. He was honest, loyal, and brave in all of the other characters' eyes. However, in reality he was a cruel, deceitful, immoral man...
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Cassio And Desdemona
448 wordsIn this thesis I will explain the reasonings behind Iago. Iago is obviously the 'bad apple' in this book and I will explain several reasons for this behavior. Iago is the whole reason there is any conflict in Othello. If he never had entered the play Othello would have married Desdemona and they would have lived happily ever after. Right from the beginning of the play to the very end he causes conflicts. He is directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of: Othello Desdemona, Emilia, Cassi...
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Othello And Iago
1,471 wordsThe principal method that Iago uses to convince Othello of Desdemonas infidelity is by using one of Othellos most treasured possessions and telling Othello that his wife, Desdemona has given it away to her lover, Cassio. This treasured possession of Othellos is a handkerchief, which "Did an Egyptian to my mother give". The handkerchief is important to Othello because it is a link back to his mother who also told Othello to give it to his wife. "She dying gave it me, And bid me when my fate would...
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Iago's Recognition Of Othello's Trusting Nature
804 wordsThe character of Iago is of extreme and pivotal importance to the play as a whole. His character is brilliantly defined, giving him a quality that other characters in the story do not possess. Iago's ability to project a conflicting quality or emotion to the other characters enables him to exploit them. It is this quality that Shakespeare bestows on his villain which enables him to dictate the plot so brilliantly. It is due to the interdependence of the play's characters that Othello allows indi...
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Iago Torments Othello
386 wordsOthello Journal Act IV In Act IV of Othello, by WIlliam Shakespeare, Iago continues his torture of Othello. Iago torments Othello until Othello practically faints. He keeps pushing and pushing Othello saying that Cassio has layed with Desdemona. It is noticed by the reader that Othello has gone from his once articulate to an Iago-like crude speech. "Lie with her! lie on her! We say lie on her, when they belie her. Lie with her! that's fulsome. -Handkerchief-confessions-handkerchief! -To confess,...
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Iago's Hatred For Othello
1,444 wordsOne of the most intriguing characters in the tragic play "Othello", by William Shakespeare, is Othello's "friend" Iago. Iago is the central villain in the play and deliberately tries to cause trouble for Othello. The play opens with Iago beginning to conspire with Rodrigo, a simple-minded man in love with Desdemona, with only Iago's hatred for Othello given as a reason for destruction. However, the audience is not informed for the reasons for his hatred. On a surface level, his hatred could be j...
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End As Othello Orders Cassio
630 wordsLaurence Sterne stated a fact when he wrote, "No body, but he who has felt it, can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man's mind torn by two projects of equal strength, both obstinately pulling in a contrary direction at the same time". Often a character's conflict is the major theme of a novel. This character's decisions influence the outcome of the plot of the novel. In Shakespeare's play Othello, the character Othello is torn between the love he has for his wife, Desdemona, and th...
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Plays On Othello's Insecurities About Desdemona
2,055 wordsIn this piece of course work I was told to look in depth at scene of the play? Othello? I will begin by telling you the outline of the scene, then a closer look in to the scene. Desdemona decides that she wants to advocate for Cassio. She tells Emilia so, and that she believes Cassio is a good person, and has been wronged in this case; she pledges to do everything she can to persuade her husband to take Cassio back. Cassio speaks with her briefly, but leaves just as Othello enters because he doe...
