1. The Significant Text of Othello
... to readers through time and age. Through Iago's foul play and deceptive conduct, Shakespeare demonstrates how duplicity fosters misplaced trust and subsequently abuses the innocent. Shakespeare reflects on the unsettling effects of the deception behind Elizabethan Era's Babington Plot, which aimed to bring Queen Mary to the throne by murdering Elizabeth I. Iago's paradoxical aside 'I am not what I am' immediately discloses his duplicitous nature yet ... to one consumed by jealousy. He is, as critic Christopher Reaske described, an 'egotistical and immediately jealous' (Shakesp...
- Word Count: 1031
- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: Graduate