Act 4 scene 2 starts out with Emilia being questioned by Othello. Othello wants to know if what Iago says is true. He asks Emilia “You have seen nothing then?” trying to subtly figure out if Emilia has seen Desdemona with Cassio cheating. Emilia explains to Othello “she is honest” and Desdemona would never do such a thing. Othello doesn’t believe her, once Emilia exits Othello has a soloiquily where he first mentions that Desdemona is a whore. Desdemona and Emilia both enter back into the scene
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Journal 5 Othello Othello is a cool but nasty deceiving story. The way Iago plays everyone and how they listen and are so gullible is unbelievable. But this kind of stuff happens today, to everyone in different ways. Desdemona is just like any woman and is in live with her husband. Iago goes about the way he plots everything so sneakily. He doesn’t think twice about whether or not he is doing wrong. He just says and people do. That’s what I like about him. I envy that he can think of things so
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Othello Iago is Othello’s ancient. He is a Cold-hearted and bitter man. Othello takes place at first in Venice, Italy and as the play goes on they go to the island of Cyprus. In the painting Othello by Jules Margolis there are two faces, Iago is one of them he is whispering in Othello’s ear false things, trying to get inside his head. The painting Othello: My Warrior by Nabil Kanso, Shows all the chaos Iago has created and Othello along with Desdemona are in the middle of all the chaos. Iago is the
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other characters see in the play. The most common usage of the words honest and honesty throughout the play are in regards to Iago. Iago uses his reputation as an honest man, to manipulate the ones around him and watch them suffer. Othello considers him to be “Honest Iago” (I.iii.290). Each character describes him as truthful, trustworthy, honest and full of love. Iago states, “O wretched fool, that lov’st make thine honesty a vice!” (III.iii.385). He says that being honest can be harmful and those
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character in the play uses some form of a racial slur or stereotype to insult or describe Othello at various points in the play as I will demonstrate. The character within the play that most commonly makes racist remarks in reference to Othello is Iago. Throughout the play, Othello spent a great deal of time dealing with his community around him victimizing him because of his race and treating him like a victim. The effect of racism
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misguided and possess a great lack of perception. I am going to explore the character Iago, who presents a cunning and devious character and address the distinct comparisons with the character Edmond in King Lear. I will also study the methods he uses in order to successfully manipulate and theoretically blind the other characters from the truth. Iago represents the antagonist of the play as the ensign of Othello. Iago is a character with very unique and perplexing characteristics. His actions depict
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The idea that "there would be no good without evil" is a good place to start when thinking about Iago and Othello as rival characters in Shakespeare's Othello. The play shows us how good turns into evil in the complex character of Othello, who turns out to be more than a victim of Iago's wrongdoings but also a character who is both good and evil. In Shakespeare's play evil is not something absolute. Evil demonstrates itself as a different quality with each person, perhaps the point when a person
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friends that he trusted, manipulate him. This deception could happen to anyone which is why I firmly believe that Iago is completely responsible for the tragedy of Othello. 1. Firstly, Iago deliberately orchestrated a plan in order to ruin Othello's life. He planned certain events throughout the play to make Desdemona's affair with Cassio believable. * For example, Iago carried out a plan to make Cassio lose his job. He was jealous that Cassio was promoted as lieutenant. He got Cassio
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who is frame by Iago to believe that his wife Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio. Othello is a Moorish general in the service of Venice. He was blinded by Iago to seek revenge against his wife and his lieutenant. The theme revenge is portrayed throughout the whole play. Such evil act is plotted and executed by the character Iago. He is focused on destroying Othello for not promoting him to lieutenant and does not care who will get hurt in the process of his vengeance. Iago main target was
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Iago Possibly the most heinous villain in Shakespeare, Iago is fascinating for his most terrible characteristic: his utter lack of convincing motivation for his actions. In the first scene, he claims to be angry at Othello for having passed him over for the position of lieutenant (I.i. 7–32). At the end of Act I, scene iii, Iago says he thinks Othello may have slept with his wife, Emilia: “It is thought abroad that ’twixt my sheets / He has done my office” (I.iii.369–370). Iago mentions this suspicion
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