... is ironic in a story of deceit and jealousy the apparent preoccupation with courtesy that is displayed by Iago. Hunt claims the "soft- Venetian Renaissance values that sadistic impulse overwhelms in Othello are a more generalized effeteness, a super-refinement entailing pusillanimity (162). Iago is cynical and obsessed with his own personal gain. His manipulative and spiteful behavior leads to the thirst for revenge ... demonstrates the prejudices that existed over four hundred years ago. Controversy of the teaching of Othello in schools has escalated during the past decade. Many teache...

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... ) too late, ending in ultimate suffering and pathos through death. With all this that has happened to Lear, he completes Aristotle's requirements in becoming a true and a highly moving tragic hero. Notes 1DiYanni, Robert. Literature Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay ( New York, N.Y.:McGraw Hill),1960. 2 DiYanni, 1960-1961 3Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of King Lear Folger Library (New York, N.Y.: Washington ... Square Press), 1.1.183 Subsequent references to this play are from this edition. 4 Bradley, AC. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbe...

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