1. Explain your Interpretation of Lago's Character and Role
... 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- is one of pure duplicity and malevolence, enabling him to be used as a dramatic device to highlight the flaws and potential ... epic hero and the glorious conquest, instead favouring a more practical approach, but the fact that he favours traditional views of progression rather than Othello's practical promotion of Cassio as the most appropriate person ...
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