... to fabricate stories and initiate rumors. It 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 ... states, "Shakespeare thus considered this one problematic situation, which has to do with a male difficulty in accepting one's beloved as both a sexual and a nurturi...

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