Othello’s isolation‚ Iago‚ the play’s most paradoxical character‚ drives Othello to question everything he knows. Iago’s weapon is his ability to drive the other characters into a personal conflict‚ which leads the characters to have both an outer and inner life. Even though Iago and Othello’s duality is more clearly shown‚ most of the characters in the play display a personal inner conflict. Being a tragic hero‚ Othello falls victim to the loneliness and isolation that Iago drives him to. Almost
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In Act 4 Scene 1‚ Iago continues to manipulate Othello’s thoughts by filling his head with distorted lies‚ false ideas‚ and vulgar images of Desdemona naked with Cassio. This eventually drives Othello to insanity and he falls into an epileptic fit. This scene provides us with a broader understanding of the duplicative‚ two-faced nature of Iago‚ as well as reinforcing the significant amount of dominance and ownership he holds over Othello. From the way that Iago cleverly utilizes Iago’s insecurities
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speech as Iago more and more manipulates him. We talked a lot about Iago’s constant use of sexual imagery. We also discussed his use of beasts and animal imagery to describe people and his consistent desire to reduce men and their actions to that of beasts. "Ere I would say I would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen‚ I would change my humanity with a baboon." (1.3.312-3) - Iago uses the derisory "guinea-hen"‚ a euphemism for a prostitute. "drown cats and blind puppies" (Iago 1.3.332-3)
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Desdemona‚ daughter of a senator and is secretly married to her. Iago‚ his junior‚ jealous of his success attempts to destroy Othello and Desdemona and through his machinations obliterates love‚ honour and beauty. This passage marks the beginning of Act 1 Scene 2‚ and we see Iago come from badmouthing Othello to Roderigo and in this scene‚ he badmouths Roderigo to Othello. As in the first scene‚ the reader is sort of a voyeur‚ listening
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would have been a huge deal back then.Characters like Iago would help use racism to make Othello question his marriage to Desdemona. Iago‚ one of Othello’s right hand man was actually his worst enemy. Iago was jealous that Cassio go the promotion and not him. Iago would destroy the marriage of Othello and Desdemona‚ and he even dismantles his own marriage too. One of the first racist remarks toward Othello was to Brabantio‚ Desdemona father. Iago said to Brabantio “Even now‚ now‚ very now‚ an old
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including her husband‚ Iago. In the beginning of the play‚ Emilia is submissive‚ but in the end she transforms and stands up to her husband and doesn’t let him get away with any of his manipulations. At the beginning of the play‚ Emilia is completely submissive and couldn’t argue with Iago whatsoever‚ no matter what he said and she was willing to do anything‚ as long at it helped him succeed. When Iago talks about women‚ he really has nothing nice to say. In fact‚ when Iago is slandering women
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In Cyprus‚ Iago begins his devilish plan of destruction. During a festive evening celebrating the nuptials of Desdemona and Othello‚ Iago sends Roderigo to stir Cassio. A typically sober Cassio takes to the bottle at Iago’s generosity‚ and then falls into duel with Roderigo. Because of the chaos‚ Cassio’s reputation is seemingly smeared and his relationship becomes troubled with Othello. Iago tells Cassio to ask Desdemona to speak with Othello on his behalf. By doing so‚ Iago will plan the seed
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Throughout the play of othello iago used several techniques to urge what he wanted and one way or another he somehow almost continually got what he needed. His techniques were that of an everyday sneaky‚ conniving person‚ who continually got people to trust him‚ except the person who was closest to him. However the most overall techniques he used were gaining the trust of people. That was the number one technique‚ and from gaining their trust he may branch far from that and then he may manipulate
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Iago… Act one starts out with Iago and Roderigo walking in the streets of Venice. Iago is expressing his hate towards Othello. From the beginning of Shakespeare’s play‚ one realizes that Iago is the villain or antagonist. There is no doubt that he has only evil intentions‚ but often without a reason. It is said that Iago is the worst hypocrite Shakespeare has invented. IN the play he also boasts about the fact that he is only playing a part. Only the reader sees that he is a very dishonest‚ deceitful
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leads Iago to his desires‚ atrocities. Thesis: Iago is a remorseless and egoistic man that manipulates good-natured minds to become as vile as a criminal in order to satisfy his atrocious desires. First Body Paragraph Introductory Sentence: Irrational decisions by Iago are the aftermath of his logic being distorted by jealousy. Point One: Micheal Cassio is appointed lieutenant over Iago. Proof: Point Two: Iago suspects Othello to be sleeping with his wife. Proof: Point Three: Iago accuses
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