Venice is a haven of civilization, on the border with the land of heathenism and disputes. When Brabantio is told he has been robbed, he answers inconsistently;

"What tellâst thou me of robbing? This is Venice; My house is not a grange."

This not only shows that Venice is a quiet, civilized, uneventful place, but that its inhabitants (or at least Brabantioâs generation) believe it to be themselves.[ LINK TO 3] They live by a code of behavi

Iago says that Desdemona is a "supersubtle Venetian"[5] as if the calculatedness of her thoughts and deeds were not too a feature of himself, which they certainly are. The implication is that civilised people are conniving and scheming people, and are in that sense understood to one another while this adds to the irony of the constant reference to Iago as "honest Iago". It also contrasts the Venetian way of social dealing with the open nature of Othello. Othello is clever, as his style and military prowess show but is to content of Venice he is na•ve. He is too trusting and misunderstands the subtleties of Venetian society it is the combination of his openness and decisiveness, pride and trustfulness that allows super subtle Iago to destroy him, powerful as Othello is. Therefore it could be argued that the contrast between Venetian and Othelloâs nature is the main reason for his downfall. [6]

5. This is a very apt quotation, but leaves out some other words which would have been effective, for example "In Venice they do let God see the pranks/ They dare not show their husbands."

After Iago successfully gets Cassio kicked out, Iago goes after the top man himself, Othello. He goes after the one area where Othello is happy, which is his wife Desdemona. For once Othello is happy, so Iago has to destroy that. He carefully chooses his words and plants the seeds of jealousy in Othello's mind. Iago uses the little things to get to people. By using just a handkerchief he gets what he wants. That is why Iago is so clever, what he does results in something big, but to achieve that is all very simple. It's almost as if anyone could be doing what he's doing. Now that Iago has the full trust of Othello, he now has the power over him.

Why does he do the things that he does? It's who Iago is. Iago is pure evil, he is because he knows exactly what he's doing. He's evil because he is extremely clever. He does it because he needs to be in control. Maybe he does it because that's his role in the play. If he wasn't there, then the play would be a boring one. If the character wasn't there then the story would be exactly like Romeo and Juliet. If he wasn't there, then there wouldn't be struggle between good and evil. Iago plays a similar role to Hamlet. He has two different personalities. The one that the other characters see, and the one especially for us. The face that Iago puts on for the rest of the characters is a sweet and unsuspecting one. Everyone loves Iago, and values what he has to say. His character is shy and not very out going. Very similar to Hamlet when he was putting on a show for the rest of his family. The face that Iago shows us is much different. It would be as if the stage went dark and his voice would change, as if it were a completely different person. He's evil, when he tells us what he's going to do next. He shows no remorse, and it seems that he doesn't really care what the out come is going to do to other people. That act is slightly different from the other face of Hamlet. Hamlet mostly talks about what's going on in his head, and how confused he is, and when he's going to act. The only similar thing is, he tells us what he has in store for the people around him. Another similarity is that they are not crazy. Hamlet wanted people to believe that he was crazy, but when it was only us he was speaking to, it was obvious he wasn't. Iago is the same way. They couldn't be crazy because their plans are thought out to well, no crazy person could come up with plans the two of them did.

So despite the great friendship, despite the battle experience, and despite the principles involved, Othello still chose Micheal Cassio, an inexperienced Prima Donna fresh out of the academy. Iago did not make that disastrous choice, Othello did, therefore Iago did not make the situation, he just made it dangerous.

Instead of considering that Othello might have actually won his daughter over fairly, he immediately ass

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