... prey is constantly used. 'I Shall ensnare them all', Iago says. Iago has set his web and nothing can stop him now; he so easily controls the "levers" of the play. Iago, (our so friendly villain) uses a metaphor relating a garden to our lives, and gardeners to our independent wills: "Our bodies are gardens, to which our wills are gardeners" (ln.315) This view on life ... by: 'Tis in ourselves (ln.314); corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. If the balance of our lives (ln.320-1); love to be a sect or scion. (ln.327-8)." One can tell by the connotation of the words Iago use, that...

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• Grade Level: High School

... that such a senior member of the society represented in the play is so accepting someone who strongly contradicts the social norm. This has the affect of both conflicting with the audience's socially constructed preconceptions of how a society should behave towards black people, but also allows the audience to empathise with Othello. However, as the play progresses and Iago's "monstrous birth- (I,iii) begins to sprout in Othello's "garden- (I,iii), he begins to ... (I,iii) Interestingly, when Othello is told that he is to go to Cyprus, and Desdemona is asked for her opinion on the matte...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate