The play opens late at night on a street in Venice.
wealthy Venetian gentleman, is discussing the marriage of .
Desdemona, the daughter of Brabantio. Earlier in the evening, .
she had eloped with Othello, a Moor who is a respected General .
in the Venetian army. Roderigo is angry with Iago, for he has .
paid him a handsome sum to win the love of Desdemona for .
himself and to keep him informed of her love life. .
Iago, like Roderigo, is a frustrated man. Othello has overlooked .
him for a promotion, giving the post of lieutenant to Cassio. Iago .
continues only as Othello's standard bearer and an ensign in the .
navy. As a result, he has a grudge against both Othello and .
Cassio and vows to have revenge upon both of them. .
At Iago's suggestion, he and Roderigo go to wake up Brabantio .
and tell him about the elopement of his daughter. Iago is very .
bawdy in his descriptions. The old Venetian Senator is very .
angry that his sleep has been disturbed with such news, but he .
searches his house and finds that his daughter is missing. .
Coming downstairs, Brabantio is a mess, not thinking clearly and .
speaking in half-sentences. He bemoans the fact that he did not .
encourage Roderigo as his daughter's suitor. He also demands to .
know where he can find Othello. .
Iago quietly slips away from the scene. He does not want Othello .
to know anything about the part he played in inciting Brabantio; .
to make his plans work, Iago must stay in the good graces of .
Othello and appear to be a loyal ensign. Before leaving, he tells .
Roderigo that Othello and Desdemona are staying at the .
Sagittary Inn. Roderigo offers to take Brabantio there. .
Act I, Scene 2 .
In this second scene, Iago reveals his scheming and treachery, as .
he applies it to the unsuspecting Othello. He reaches the .
Sagittary Inn before Roderigo and Brabantio. Pretending to be .
Othello's loyal friend and follower, Iago tells him that Roderigo .
has spoken in an insulting manner about him.
By that, I couldn't help but distinguish the type of character Othello was. ... What exactly contributes to Othello's tragic heroism? ... Othello was also great, but was somewhat far from perfect. ... In summary, I consider Othello as a tragic hero because he was also very self centered and interested, along with him being gullible on top of all that. ... People have a good impression of Othello. ...
Barbantio tackles Othello with the theft of his daughter, claiming that he must have worked on her by witchcraft. ... Act IV Iago gives Othello 'proof' of Desdemona's infidelity. Observed by Othello, he draws Cassio into a conversation about a whore, Bianca, who is in love with the lieutenant: Cassio's levity as he talks of her is interpreted by Othello as contempt for his own wife's looseness. ... When an embassy arrives from Venice to relieve Othello of his duties and establish Cassio as his successor, Othello strikes his wife before the venetians. ... Othello, convi...
Othello Act III Scene I Cassio sends musicians to Othello to get back on his good side. ... Alone with Othello, Iago begins his implication of an affair between Cassio and Desdemona by reminding Othello that Cassio served as Othello and Desdemona's go-between during their courtship. ... Othello enters and flies into a rage at him. ... Othello is furious and plots for revenge. ... Othello was mad and went off. ...
Othello is a fundamentally different character to all others in the play [1]. ... This casts her in utter contrast to Othello and serves to highlight how much of an outsider Othello is. ... What does Venice mean in Othello? ... The Hidden Meaning of Othello The play Othello is a tale of jealousy, revenge, and deception. ... This summary is what the play might seem like to the unseeing eye, but to the indepth and trained reader there is more to the story then first appears. ...
First he tells of Othellos mis-doings to Brabantio, then he appears at Othellos side claiming Roderigo spoke the crude words. ... Iago is trying to provoke a rise out of Othello. ... Othello is another character we witness Iago plotting to destroy. ... Othello is never referred to by name. ... The last speech of Iago in Act 1 is a fantastic summary of his character. ...
Where Othello represents good, with his purity. ... In Act I, Scene I, which takes place in Venice where Iago pretends to be a "faithful" officer to Othello (governor), but why he really follows Othello is for his own good. He sucks up to Othello, so that Othello will may him a lieutenant, more power, after seeing that he is a so-called "trustworthy" worker. ... Brabantio, wanting to get his hands on Othello, he sets out with his armed men to look for Othello. ... Brabantio arrives with his men and forces Othello to accompany him to the duke, its like a trial, in this case Othello is the defe...
Maybe all this applies to tragedies written during the time that Sophocles wrote Oedipus, but when Shakespeare wrote Othello and Hamlet he must have chosen to leave out some of these elements that make a "tragedy". ... Without even getting into a deep plot summary, one can see the complexity of a tragedy and just how "tragic" they are. ... Some question whether Othello and Hamlet are truly tragedies, because Shakespeare does leave out a few elements of earlier tragic drama, but careful analyses of the two works reveals that they certainly are tragedies, but with a new twist. ... Othello a...
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