Othello

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In Shakespeare’s Othello, dramatic intensity is and dramatic tension is felt throughout the entire drama from the first scene to the last. As you read Othello you get a feeling as if you are in the play from all of the dramatic intensity and conflict that is presented to the reader throughout the drama. We are introduced to some of that dramatic intensity you feel as we read act I scene III 128 - 220. This is one off the many great dramatic points of this play letting us see the true feelings of Othello toward Desdemona, and how it gives Iagos a plot to plan against Othello to bring him down. This drama we see that the internal drama tension is from mainly Iago without him there would be no conflicts really throughout the play. We see inside of Iagos dastardly plan in Act II, Scene I, and Lines 211 – 292 were he is planning with Roderigo to get Desdemona away from Othello so that Roderigo could court her. We then from this scene see that at the end when Roderigo leaves that this is just a big plot to bring down Othello and get back at Cassio out of pure jealousy of him for being named by Othello his military understudy. Iago plotting the way he does in this part of the drama it’s only a mere prelude to the intensity and tension felt throughout the play. It makes us realize that the problem isn’t anything to do with Desdemona and Othello’s conflict of being together as in act I scene III lines 128 - 220. Iago in act II scene I lines 211 – 292 sets the entire plot and scheme of the drama out for us to see, and showing us that Othello’s and Desdemona’s confess to love in act I scene III lines 128 - 220 is no longer the dramatic conflict.

The dramatic intensity in Act I scene III lines 128 – 220 is a short lived intensity that Sha...

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...over powering jealous nature, and his revengeful quality to life. Brebantio forgives Desdemona and allows her to be married to Othello, but Iago is not the forgiving type at all he is the revengeful jealous type. Iago’s personality is the driving factor to this play, and to all of the dramatic tension we feel throughout reading this play. Setting the rest of the play to show us that if not for Iago there would be not dramatic tension left after Brabantio forgives Desdemona. Othello is more or less about Iago than it is about Othello, because without Iago there would be no play and no dramatic conflict throughout the drama. With Othello We begin to see the true meaning of dramatic tension through Iago and his malevolent schemes of revenge and jealousy.

Works Cited

Shakespeare, William, and Jane Coles. Othello. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 1992. Print.

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