... 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 the dramatic irony in Othello addressing him as 'Honest Iago' portrays how the antagonist's deception victimises Othello's naivety. Furthermore, the metaphor within Iago's soliloquy as he describes Desdemona as 'free ... I am black...I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapour of a dungeon' demonstrating his self denunciation at the realisation of his racial insecurities. Meanwhile, the dramatic iro...

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