Dramatic Irony In William Shakespeare's Othello

William Shakespeare once insisted “They are books, the arts, the academies, that show, contain, and nourish all the world.”A book can hold much power and information within its pages, yet throughout the history of literature, writings have been banned with the dislike of the precious information held inside of these plays, books, scripts, etc. The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, a Shakespeare classical play, has been argued both unfit and inappropriate for teenagers of high school age. In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Othello, a Moor in the Venetian Army, married a young Venetian girl, Desdemona, who he loved dearly. Later on, we discover Iago and his master plan to manipulate almost everybody in this play, which leads to Othello, our protagonist, failing not only himself but his wife.
The vocabulary and the literary devices used in the script have gained a permanent place in many of the students’ memories, and will help them in furthering their education. Double entendres, puns, oxymorons, irony, symbolism etc. have been presented in such unique and extravagant way that Shakespeare has implemented the literary terms so effectively for teenagers to understand. Dramatic irony is shown throughout the play, and the script’s prime example of this literary device would be the constant uplifting of the play’s villain. “Iago is most honest” (II.3.7). Othello’s words contradict the truth about Iago for Iago has lied to nearly everybody in this play to gain his own status as lieutenant, and this is not only said by Othello but by Cassio and Iago himself. The constant reminder that people believed Iago to be this righteous man when he manipulated them all made the storyline even more mind blowing and memorable. This was the literature used during the Elizabethan era, which would give us as students the idea of how the other writers during that time would be