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... more to himself than to the unintelligent Roderigo, he makes reference to "jackdaws", which, in Shakespeare's time, referred to the proverbially stupid birds who were apparently obsessed with snapping up trifles. However, unless you were part of an Elizabethan audience, one wouldn't understand this, making this soliloquy seem particularly outdated. However, the quote referring to the soliloquy being outdated, states just ... ...
... itself. Act 3 Scene 1: Iago IAGO Be not acknown on 't; I have use for it. Go, leave me. Exit EMILIA I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ: this may do something. The Moor already changes with my poison: Dangerous conceits are, in their ... ...
... -perpetuating, self-intensifying,and where no justifying evidence for it exists, the jealous person under the impulse of an extraordinary perversity will continue to manufacture it, inventing causes, converting airy trifles into "confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ- [III.iii.323-324] (Scott, 418) Without understanding the inner mechanics of Othello's mind, one could never hope to fully understand the ... ...
