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  • Iago's Plan To Dethrone His Lord Othello
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    What is the most disastrous human emotion William Shakespeare's Othello makes it clear that the answer to this question is jealousy. After all, it is jealousy that drives Iago to concoct the plan, which ruins the lives of several innocent people including Othello, Desdemona, Emilia, and Rodrigo. This play poses a distinct character foil between Shakespeare's vilest villain, Iago, and the honest, but easily mislead Othello. This tragedy is mostly based upon Iago's suggestion of an affair between ...
  • Iago's Play
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    Othello, by William Shakespeare, is Othello's tragedy but Iago's play because Iago is the one who is constantly controlling the action. Iago manipulates situations in his favor by speaking directly to the audience. This allows Iago to show the audience his point of view on all matters concerning the play and twist their conception of him in his favor. Iago merely displays his manipulative character in convincing us that he is no villain and is justified in his actions against the other character...
  • Iago's Theories On Othello
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    What Is Shakespeare's Achievement In Act I Of Othello Shakespeare's own personal aim was not to write a social and political reflection of his era, as many contemporary readers believe, it was; purely and simply, to entertain his audience. This does not mean that there can be no social and political reflections within Othello, it means that the reflections are there, not for the sake of social and political commentary, but for the sake of entertainment and pleasure. Aristotle explained in Poetic...
  • Trust Of Iago
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    Iago is one of Shakespeare's most complex villains. Initially you get the impression that the character of Iago is one of pure evil. Right from the start of Act 1, it becomes obvious that he is capable of most anything. You see right away that he is able to give the appearance of one thing, but in reality be something quite different. He has been acting like he is interested in helping Roderigo by bringing gifts and messages to Desdemona for him. Iago is in reality using Roderigo who is very gul...
  • Iago By Shakespeare
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    In Othello, the character of Iago is alienated from society by his personal values. He is used by Shakespeare to demonstrate societies assumptions and moral values on a whole. Iago is the main antagonist to Othello in this story, and he succeeds in his plan to ruin Othello by forcing him to believe that Desdemona is cheating on him. Because Iago succeeds, because he was able to carry off the plan, we are able to see exactly the assumptions on society that Shakespeare laid out to demonstrate. The...
  • Iago's Skillful Manipulation Of Othello
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    OTHELLO In the play Othello, the character of Othello has certain traits, which make him seem naive and unsophisticated, compared to many other people. This is why Iago, is able to manipulate him so easily. Iago told Roderigo, 'O, sir, content you. I follow him to serve my turn upon him ' (I, i lines 38-9). Iago is saying, he only follows Othello to a point, and upon reaching it he will not follow him any longer. This is the first sign of how deceitful Iago will be. Iago has his own evil agenda ...
  • Mere Assumption Of Iago's Word Othello
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    Of all the characters in Shakespeare's Othello, none is more complex and unknown to the audience than Iago. He is portrayed by every character as an honest and trustworthy person. Yet, as the audience is well informed by the end of the first act, he appears to be quite the opposite. He's a duplicitous character, honest and kind on the outside, but truly a pure, evil and malignant person on the inside. Throughout the entire play he turns all his friends, who trust him most, against each other. He...
  • Nature Of Othello's Character
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    Othello: The Tragic HeroIn William Shakespeare's Othello, Othello is the tragic hero. He is a character of high stature who is destroyed by his surroundings, his own actions, and his fate. His destruction is essentially precipitated by his own actions, as well as by the actions of the characters surrounding him. The tragedy of Othello is not a fault of a single villain, but is rather a consequence of a wide range of feelings, judgments and misjudgments, and attempts for personal justification ex...
  • Desdemona And Othello
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    Othello In this speech, Othello lets his mind take over all his self control. A usual cool tempered person Othello is inflicted with rage about the possibility of his wife sleeping with his lieutenant, Cassio. Iago has the ability to cloud the head of Othello with lies about the Desdemona and Cassio causing suffering and tragedy. A tragedy is a serious action or event that always turns out the worst way possible. Iago has setup Othello just enough for Othello to create his own disaster. The lite...
  • Othello's Doubt
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    "Othello", by William Shakespeare, is a story of jealousy's potential to manipulate thoughts and eventually lead to ultimate demise. The key to extremely detrimental jealousy lies within one's ability to recognize it or deny it. It seems that the important theme of "Othello" is that if jealousy is not recognized and immediately dealt with, it receives a head start to commence the process of rotting away all normal human reason. Othello's speech in Act scene beginning with line 178 is the first a...
  • Iago's Reason For Driving Othello
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    Shakespeare might very well have made the decision to name his play "Iago" and not "Othello", but I suppose he had a knack for catchy titles. Since it is Othello's tragedy, even if it is Iago's play, "Iago" would be an inappropriate title, especially since it is not Iago's life that is ruined, and although he takes part in most-if not all-of the action in the play, it still revolves around Othello. That notion aside, one might take the time to raise more important or deeper points of discussion ...
  • Emotional Destruction The Tragedy Othello
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    Emotional Destruction The tragedy Othello, was written in a time of great racial tensions in England. According to Eldred Jones, in 1600 just three years before Othello was written, Queen Elizabeth proclaimed an order for the transportation of all " negars and black moores' out of the country. It is in this manner that Shakespeare began the masterpiece of Othello, a drama about a noble black Arab general, Othello, who falls in love with and marries, Desdemona, a young white daughter of a senator...
  • Iago To Othello
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    Who is Iago? Iago poisons people's thoughts, creating ideas in their heads without implicating himself. His first victim is Roderigo. Roderigo remarks, 'That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine. ' [Act I, Scene I, Line 2] Throughout the play, Iago leads Roderigo, professing that '... I do hate [the Moor] as I do Hell pains. ' [Act I, Scene I, Line 152] He tells Roderigo to 'Put money in thy purse' [Act I, Scene, Line 328] so that he can win Desdemona with gifts. Iago k...
  • Othello And Iago Two Of A Kind
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    When reading Shakespeare's "Othello the Moor of Venice", the two main hero's seem to be very different, both in character and actions. Othello seems to be an honest man who believes other people. He is respected by society for his nobility and bravery. Iago is a villain, plotting around not only against Othello. Othello demotes him to a lower status, and despite being a trained soldier, Iago is quite a coward when it comes to confronting an enemy with a sword. Although these two figures seem so ...
  • Othello's Fatal Flaw
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    A tragic figure, according to the classic definition, is a person of noble birth whose character is flawed by a weakness that causes his downfall. Othello, while not a prince or a king, is descended from royalty, and proves himself worthy as a powerful soldier and a gentle, poetic man. While some people feel that his fatal flaw is his jealous nature, others feel Othello proves that he is not prone to jealousy. I tend to favor the notion that Othello's flaw is a jealous passion that he cannot con...
  • Bestiality In Othello Animal Image
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    For as long as literature has been around, authors have used imagery to make their point more understandable. Many times the use of bestial imagery is utilized to draw similar themes or traits between the actions of a character and others in the story. This is not a new technique, in fact it is one that dates back to the days of Shakespeare. The play Othello portrays bestiality as recurring theme and image from the beginning to the final verse of this tragedy. In the case of Othello, success als...
  • Roderigo Mirrors Iago's Discriminative Language Towards Othello
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    Othello How Does Shakespeare Explore Jealousy in this play? The theme of jealously is so prominent throughout Othello that it is the apocalyptic element which mutilates every essence of the milk of human kindness within it's prey; Othello, aswell as fuelling contempt for the tragedy to flow through it's damned route. The first hues of this green, self destructing passion are exemplified Roderigo's spite is unleashed from him by Iago, the ring-keeper of the play who manipulates the emotions of ch...
  • Nature In Othello's And Desdemona's Relationship
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    Characters play an important role in assisting playwrights in developing themes. In Shakespeare's Othello the characters play an essential role in being able to communicate the themes of the play and how they are relevant to their society. Othello tells the story of a black man marrying a white woman, whom he murders because he becomes convinced that she is unfaithful. In the text, the characters and their responses to one another inform the audience of the importance of themes, such as class, p...
  • Handkerchief To Othello
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    Look closely at the handkerchief. What does it mean to Othello, Desdemona, Emilia, Iago, Cassio, Bianca? In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, the handkerchief plays a huge part, if not the most significant reason in the unfolding of the tragedy of Othello, provides a perfect opportunity for Iago to manipulate Othello's mind and turn him over the edge from an in control leader, to a passionate beast which brings about the murder of Desdemona. The handkerchief has great meaning to Othello. ...
  • Iago Needs Othello
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    My Perception Of William Shakespeare's Othello Essay, My Perception Of William Shakespeare's Othello My Perception of William Shakespeare's Othello Othello, by William Shakespeare, is perhaps not as exciting as a ravishingly sexy poster of Laurence Fishburne and Irene Jacob. Yet, with its intoxicating mix of love, sexual passion and the deadly power of jealousy, Shakespeare has created an erotic thriller based on a human emotion that people are all familiar with. It all depends on how those peop...

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