... 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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... support the view of self-determinism while also showing the inconstancy of Iago's character - he only supports this view when it suits him to do so, and retracts it when Cassio is promoted above him, instead clinging to the "old gradation, where each second Stood heir to their first-. This is yet another example of his duplicity, and an indication that it permeates all aspects of his personality. ... Although his denial of love as anything ... dramatic exaggeration and hellish imagery would suggest, presenting an image of a person we could all become if we allowed ourselves to be conque...

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