Othello and Antigone

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Othello and Antigone

Othello, takes place in Venice during an attack of the island of Cyprus . The

protagonist is Othello and The antagonist of the story is Iago, who wants

Othello to give him the rank of head luitenant but the position was given to

Cassio. Desdemona is Othello's wife who is having an affair with Cassio.

Roderigo, is a character madley in love with Desdemona; and Emilia , who

is iago's wife. The heart of this story is trajic. Although Othello is a noble

warrior, he is a jealous person . with this, most of the play portreys the factor

on jealousy which causes corruption. Many conflicts are found in Othello,

man vs. man is one . also, when Iago seeks revenge against Othello and

Cassio because of his hatred and jealousy for them. Person vs. himself is also

found when Othello has a problem with whether or not he should believe

that Desdemona is cheating on him. . one lesson , in which, readers can

learn from the play is that "jealousy causes corruption in many ways such as

dishonesty which was portrayed by Iago".At the end of the play, Desdemona

dies, iago has no guilt ; even when iago was dieing , he doesn't have any

remorse for anyone. However, Iago was not fully to blame for desdemona's

death, Othello also caused Desdemona to die, his jealousy and his and

overzealous attidude cause it. Even in the end of the play , Othello doesn't

know what his drive and motivation for killing the woman of his life.

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