Texts which examine mankind's fallibilities often hold transcendental importance for readers. This statement applies to Shakespeare's tragedy 'Othello' which discusses human flaws such as the weakness of trust under influences of deception, the nature of pride to be replaced by irrational jealousy and how love is vulnerable to societal influences. Because of these messages, 'Othello' remains ... 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 ...

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... As soon as the play begins, Iago is presented to the audience as an ambitious but deeply bitter character who is eager to prey upon the good nature of others in order to advance his own social status. The image of him that Shakespeare portrays through lines such as "I am not what I am ... injury, I never found a man that knew how to love himself-, which also suggests that he mistrusts the rest of humanity for its inability to realise that human ideals are only hindering life's potential fruits', and that he exploits such idealists simply because he can; as he says of Othello, "He holds m...

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