... way. He wishes for other people's possessions and advantages, like he wanted to be Othello's Lieutenant, and was jealous of Cassio. By the title of the play, I automatically thought Othello must be the name of the main character of the play or must play a leading Role. However as I read the book I learnt that one of the main characters was Iago. Iago is a 28 year old Venetian, and ... Iago announced that he hated Othello, because he thinks Othello has slept with Emelia, his wife, so he plans to get even with him by using Roderigo to inform Desdemona's Father, of her affairs with Othello...

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How does the dialogue develop your response to the character of Othello? Othello is extremely nave and pitiful. The love he feels for Desdemona is shown in the language Shakespeare has written in other scenes. However in Act 3 Scene 3 Othello's language turns very sombre and evil. He uses animalistic phrases whilst speaking of Desdemona and her so-called disloyalty' with Cassio, which Iago convinces Othello ... is on going. Some of the phrases that caught my attention are "Death and damnation! O!- "I'll tear her all to pieces- and "Arise black vengeance, from the hollow hell."" This last quot...

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Iago's Character Act III scene III is very important in the play Othello. This is the scene that Iago changes Othello's mind about his wife, Desdemona. By Iago's words and everyone else's actions, Othello begins to believe that Desdemona is cheating on him with Michael Cassio. Othello trusts Iago and thinks he is honest, when in reality Iago is the least trustworthy of all, and ... Iago uses this against Othello. Although Iago is a very smart man, without everyone else's unknowing help, he would not be able to convince Othello of such a lie. In the very ... beginning of the scene, Desdemona ...

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Explain Your Interpretation of Iago's Character and Role in the Play So Far In the opening act of "Othello" the audience learns a tremendous amount about Iago. It is obvious that he is a central and complicated character. Shakespeare, in this opening act, manages to show or hint at all aspects of Iago's personality. There is no doubt after Act 1 that he is the villain of the story and an extremely ... intriguing character. Iago is not a character who likes to get his hands dirty. He creates the trouble, causes the stir but has ... the ability and coolness of mind to remove himself from the c...

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... individual that makes it popular. The play Othello has succeeded in achieving that. Among the main themes is racism. Othello, the title character, was a Moorish general serving the Venetian government. Being a black, he was subjected to so many different forms of discrimination and hatred by others around him. Iago who was his ensign was probably the worst racist in the play "old ... not perfect and had flaws too-which makes the play much more enjoyable. Iago himself, on the other hand, is a very different character from Othello. Although iago was a friend to all he managed to hide his ...

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... cannot understand how Desdemona could be attracted to Othello unless he used magic to bewitch her. He seems to regard Othello as someone outside their own society. He accuses him of using drugs to seduce her and of him being a practitioner of "arts inhibited" to create an image of a particularly devious character. It is noticeable that Brabantio's view of Othello is very like Iago's picture of Othello created in the first scene ... soldier shown in scene 2 and in scene 1 where he is portrayed as the stereotypical "black"- sexual and a devil. The theme of appearance versus reality is evid...

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... . Iago here emphasizes the biracial nature of the marriage, already showing his ability to manipulate people, in this case he is manipulating Brabantio, to believe in Iago's own opinions and in theory to eliminate all thoughts that Brabantio might of had of his own about the marriage. Despite the negative foregrounding of Othello's character by Iago, our first impressions of Othello in Act 1 are of a noble and well-spoken man, his ... nobility is conveyed through his speech "most potent grave and reverend signiors"(1.3.76) to his future father-in-law Brabantio of Othello's love for his d...

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... largely determined by the characters ability to manipulate language. Iago is the most significant example of a character manipulating language in order to influence the events of the play. Although Shakespeare wrote in a mixture of blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameters) and prose, he manipulates the style and form of the verse in order to achieve certain effects and creates specific idioms for each character. Of all the players, Iago is the most ... skilled and effective in the use of it; he slips effortlessly ... ...

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... animalistic, malicious monster who uses Iago's bestial vocabulary. While one can consider Iago the sole cause of Othello's downfall, cause can also be found within Othello himself. It is Othello's intrinsic internal flaws of jealousy, naivety, inability to judge character and the inherent vulnerability of love that causes his downfall. "My life upon her faith," in this conclusive statement Othello shows how entire his love ... see Cassio wipe his beard with." Fate also assists Iago as Cassio and Bianca arrive when he needs them to. It is so coincidental as too unbelievable unless Iago's...

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... is pompous and conceited, and this is visible after only a short period of time. Othello is being described by others before the audience sees him speak for himself. As we listen to him, the reader also starts to believe that when we finally get to meet this Othello character, he will be all of what Iago says, if not more. But as we read on and come ... to where Roderigo tries to awaken Brabantio, Iago uses fowl, racist and ageist language against the Moor and ... uses plus the fact he mentions little of war also helps portray him as a a nice guy. He openly admits to marrying Desdemona...

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... fortune does the thicklips owe If he can carry't thus" (I.I. 63-37). Rodrigo is a rich man in loved with Desdemona, he is always sending gifts through Iago to Desdemona but despites of all his efforts he could not spike Desdemona's attention. He blames Othello for this and even makes racial slurs toward the Moor. Roderigo's jealousy toward Desdemona's love for Othello was ... so blindly that ultimately lead to his death. Lastly, Bianca was also a character affected by jealousy, after finding Desdemona's handkerchief, she accused Cassio of infidelity. "Let the devil and his dam ... not ...

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... world's most debated issues is very prominent in Shakespeare's tragic play: Othello. The issue of racism is shown through the words and actions of every single character in the play. The motivating factors and reasons for a character's racist mindset may vary, but this topic still happens to appear in majority of dialogues. Roderigo, Iago, and Brabantio are three characters that portray racist traits throughout the play ... he is just a suitor, but still involved in the general army. He has no real reason to dislike Othello, so he goes with the crowd and choses to disrespect Othello. He...

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... difference can be gleaned off personal differences such as the reverence of Othello with the duplicity of Iago. Desdemona, courteous and intelligent, is an exemplary to the women of her time, challenging the unuttered bounds of her patriarchal society. These anomalies all form part to the theme of difference that is core to this Shakespearian tragedy. Othello's different racial background displaces him within ... the societal sphere of his career. His Moorish roots elicit skepticism to his capital position in the Italian military, ... ; "Think, my lord!" "Think, my lord!" . An honest and...

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... the male main character and his conflict, which tends to deal with a woman. Othello presents this with Othello himself and the conflict deals with his own wife. Women also seem not to be favored in Shakespeare's plays, yet more of the problem. In Othello, Shakespeare writes his male character's to view women in a demeaning way. In the 17th century the family of the daughter had all rights in ... the say of whom she shall marry. When Desdemona left the house of her father, Brabantio, to wed the Moor, Othello, it seemed to be her first step in ... redefining her role as a women. Instead ...

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... innocent, Shakespeare highlights how duplicity undermines innocence. In Othello, Shakespeare demonstrates how a loss of pride develops jealousy which impedes reason and rationality. Shakespeare discusses this concept as a response to the pervasive influences of the Great Chain of Being, a social paradigm which dictated hierarchical order for all forms of existence and pressured individuals to retain their status in the chain. Othello's eloquent, poetic language as he claims &apos ... feeds on' foreshadows how jealousy will consume Othello's vulnerable state. Through the complete deterio...

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... These three attributes "bravery, ambition, and self-doubt "struggle for mastery of Macbeth throughout the play. Shakespeare uses Macbeth to show the terrible effects that ambition and guilt can have on a man who lacks strength of character. We may classify Macbeth as irrevocably evil, but his weak character separates him from Shakespeare's great villains. Macbeth, great warrior though he is, is ... explaining that he lusts after Desdemona because he wants to get even with Othello "wife for wife- (II.i.286). None of these claims seems to adequately explain Iago's deep hatred of Othello a...

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... well and calm with skill and authority, "Now, by heaven, / My blood begins my safer guides to rule, / And passion, having my best judgement collide / Assays to lead the way" (Act 2, Scene 3, lines 207-210). This juxtaposes the character of Iago, as he degrades lower and lower to bring down such an honest and gracious man such as Othello. He plots against him in the ... not that "kind and honest" after all. Due to the exotic difference of Othello compared to the rest, he is centralised in the play and receives more attention when in fact, the main instigating character is Iago. The fact ...

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... he tells Desdemona: " Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads | To knot and gender in! "(4.2.61-2). In these lines, he compares her to a woman who allows any man to copulate with her. The character of Othello experiences perhaps, the most dramatic change, and Shakespeare's done well to reflect this in the character's language. The hero in a play can never make an impact without the ... knows More than a spinster-unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the toga'd consuls can propose As masterly as he! Mere prattle without practice Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had th'election; And I-of...

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... of the play Othello says this to Emilia: "My friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago."(5.2.151) Showing more of his belief in Iago. This is why it was possible for Iago to trick him. The situation in Tartuffe is similar to this. In Tartuffe the tricked character is Orgon who is being tricked by Tartuffe. Throughout almost all of Tartuffe, the character ... Tartuffe holds Orgon in the palm of his hand ... and Orgon doesn't even know it. And why is this? Because Orgon trusts Tartuffe almost more or more than his own family. This is expressed particularly well in the passage "This is too ...

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... about Othello's demise. Othello's insecurity, in particular about his African origins and his relationship with Desdemona, is an element of his character that contributes to his transformation from a noble, fair and loving man, to a destructive and vengeful one. One of Othello's most obvious insecurities is in regards to his race and why Desdemona would ever love a ˜Moor'. It is not until Act 1, Scene 3 that Othello ... keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses " (3.3.270-73). Even after he has murdered Desdemona he clings to his pride and reputation, and tries to justify the m...

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... but he believes in them so strongly that he is willing to kill and destroy peoples lives in the process of completing them. His entire motives stem from one thing, jealousy, all of Iago's motives are due to this single feeling. His revenge comes from wanting to avenge the people he is jealous of. He seems to elaborate on these initial ideas until he things that every body ... wife, for this he wants further revenge. In his quest for revenge he uses Roderigo for money and the strangest reason of all, he seems to enjoy what he is doing. During the play Iago uses carefully thought out word...

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... is important that Othello forgives Cassio, which again makes the audience feel towards her sympathetic as she is doing almost exactly what Iago's plan demands of her while without her knowing it. Furthermore, the audience begins to realize that Desdemona is a rather strong character as she is clearly unsatisfied by Othello's attitude towards Cassio, thus showing that she does indeed have a mind ... shall be full of poise and difficult weight,/ And fearful to be granted.' This makes the audience realize that Desdemona's strong support for Cassio stems from her desire to ensure Othello's w...

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... expresses his honest love throughout the play during the most difficult times. Moreover, Desdemona is an independent character that loves Othello, but always has her own opinions as well. Furthermore, a piece of cloth that symbolizes their love is overpowered by their truthful feelings for each other. Consequently, in ... even though he is questioning her, he does not want to fight, as he is afraid to lose his closest friend and lover. Furthermore, all of Iago's words make Othello a green-eyed monster that now wants to kill his wife to get rid of all this jealousy in his mind. Othello e...

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... and inane characters. Well enough with the author I"d say it is now time to actually critic the acts of honor and betrayal in this pitifully simplistic excuse for a play. First of all the first act of betrayal comes in the beginning when the classically blonde character of Desdemona betrays her father to marry Othello, after all "if thou hast eyes to see. She deceived her father." 1.3, 95 This is one ... of those things that really just makes me angry, Shakespeare tries to use the tool of foreshadowing but misses the mark pitifully. At any ... ...

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... good guy and Iago as the white, but evil man. The person who shows his racist attitude directly to Othello is Brabantio who in Act 1 Scene 2 accuses Othello of using magic to lure his daughter, Desdemona. Brabantio: " to the sooty bosom / Of such a thing as thou" Another character who is racist towards Othello is Emilia. In Act 5 Scene 2, Emilia is disgusted with Othello when she ... military reputation, but also being racially an alien within Venetian society - one which tentatively accepted him because of his military achievements. It is because of this that we see Iago as being jeal...

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