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It is 2020. Two men stand in an empty street in Alabama. There are few houses on the long street. It is dark and late at night. A young major general named Iago argues with a man in his thirties named Roderigo. Iago is muscular and built well with short blonde hair. Roderigo is skinny wearing ripped jeans and a gray sweatshirt. His long, wavy brown hair covers his forehead and flows down his neck. His bushy beard covers his face. Roderigo has learned the General of the Army, a black man from Massachusetts named Othello has married the young woman he planned to marry, Desdemona. Roderigo is enraged because he believes Iago knew Othello and Desdemona were getting married. Iago insists he hates Othello because Cassio, a young man from Florida, was promoted to Lieutenant General instead of him. Iago and Roderigo talking is a heated exchange with yelling between the two.
Iago and Roderigo walk in front of Desdemona’s house and call for her
There are many picnic tables and they sit on one across from each other. It is a bright sunny day. In the distance there is a row of bushes before the forest. Iago and Othello discuss Cassio and Desdemona. Iago explains the intercourse they had to Othello causing him to go into a frenzy and a seizure. During Othello’s seizure on the ground Cassio shows up, but Iago tells him to come in a few minutes. Iago instructs Othello to hide behind the bushes because Cassio is coming. Othello is out of earshot. Iago and Cassio laugh about a prostitute. Othello believes Cassio is laughing about Desdemona, and he is furious. The prostitute, Bianca, shows up with Desdomona’s handkerchief and gives it to Cassio, which gives Othello enough proof to believe Cassio is sleeping with Desdemona. Cassio leaves and Othello runs from the bushes, angered. Iago tells Othello that Cassio was bragging about sleeping with Desdemona. Othello and Iago agree that Iago will kill Cassio, and Othello will kill
The beginning of the play starts when Iago and Roderigo were discussing about their plan of Iago wants to be second-in-command and Roderigo wants to make love with Desdemona. Next, they went into a dispute with Desdemona’s father about Othello marrying Desdemona. When, Othello marry Desdemona, Iago first plan was to get Cassio lose his job by getting drunk and into a fight. Afterwards, Desdemona tries to convince to Othello about giving Cassio’s job back. Then, Iago gets Desdemona, Othello, Cassio, and Bianca stuck in a situation about who are cheating on what, the handkerchief and Cassio’s job. Later on, Iago got in trouble of the evidence that reveal everything that actually happen in the play. Lastly, Othello killed himself, Iago receives imprisonment with torture, Emilia dies later and Cassio became the governor of Cyprus.
Iago takes on many different persona’s to enact his plan of revenge upon Othello. He plays the friend, a trustworthy and credible source of information for Othello in his feat of drama with his innocent wife, Desdemona. He also plays the wingman for Roderigo who is madly in love with Desdemona, encouraging him to make advances towards her to woo Desdemona away from Othello. Iago even persuades Roderigo to kill Cassio with his lies about Cassio and Desdemona’s affair. “...you may take him at your pleasure: I will be near to second your attempt, and he shall fall between us.” Iago promises to assist Roderigo in the murder of Cassio and he will be rewarded with Desdemona’s love (Navigators.) Iago’s true persona, though, is a heartless, woman-hating villain who would go to great lengths to get revenge against Othello for preferring Cassio over him for the military promotion.
Cassio has been sacked by Othello because Iago used Roderigo to set him up, Roderigo provoked Cassio into attacking him, and then Iago fetched Othello to see what was going on, and Iago then told Othello that all he saw was Cassio attacking Roderigo. The day after all that happened Cassio went to speak to Desdemona to see if she will try to change Othello’s mind and reinstate him, she promises she will speak to Othello about it. Othello and Iago then enter the room and Cassio, embarrassed because of the night before, embraces Desdemona and makes a quick exit. Iago takes this opportunity to make an undermining comment “Ha, I like not that”, a comment that stays in Othellos mind and starts off his suspicions. When Desdemona speaks of Cassio’s pleas and asks him to see him, he agrees to please her but he is secretly distracted by his suspicions because of what Iago has just said, and that Desdemona is now trying to get him to take back his sacking of Cassio.
A Shakespearean play always includes a typical villain character. He is boisterous, egotistical, sometimes witty, and all too eager to seek revenge. In William Shakespeare Othello, Iago is the well-liked, trusted, and brave ensign of the great Venetian general Othello, or so it appears. Iago actually possesses all of the typical villainous qualities, however Iago conducts himself with great composure, and by manipulating his counterparts, he makes people believe he is on their side. I find this characteristic to be a very intriguing one that is not easy to perform. It is perhaps Iago's villainous actions throughout this play that lead me to believe that he is the hero rather than the typical villain.
We get introduced to Iago and Roderigo, who are scheming about getting back at Othello or so called the Moore, for promoting Cassio to lieutenant instead of Iago. We find out that Iago’s plan is to be friendly to everybody in order to gain their trust and betray them. They go to the house of a person called Brabantio, to tell them that Othello has stolen his daughter. He is in shock because this is Venice a place of logic and peace. This makes Barbantio pissed and he gathers up a mob to find Othello. Iago snags off to buddy up with Othello to make himself look like a good guy. Iago tells Othello that he is his “friend”. Cassio comes in to tell Othello that duke request him. Barbantio then comes in to accuse Othello of using dark magic to seduce his daughter and tries to arrest him. Othello says that they were both summoned by the duke. The duke and the senator are discussing the war in Cyprus. That the Turkish fleet is coming. We find out that Othello is a general and they need him for the war. However Barbanto explains what that “Othello stole his daughter” and the duke agrees with Barbantio that whosever took his daughter should be punished. Othello explains that he and Desdemona fell in love when she heard him tell stories Barbantio about his life and experiences. Brabantio doesn’t believe Desdemona isn’t like that, but then Desdemona comes in for herself and says she did fall in love with Othello. Barbantio accepts
Iago is the main antagonists against Othello, throughout the entire play. Iago is not realistically motivated. Even though Iago makes many of his decisions with careful thought, he does have a main flaw that will come back to haunt him in the end. Iago unlike other characters, doesn’t have true honorable morals. Because of this, he makes many situations which are manageable, and takes them further out of proportion he does this for his own pure enjoyment to create havoc for sport. Iago manipulates the characters who trust too easily, such are Roderigo and Othello. Iago uses them as an addition to his plans, which he manages so they will work in his favor in the end, or so he believes they will.
While reading the play “The Tragedy Of Othello” by Shakespeare I realized that it was almost like reading one big poem. Many of Shakespeare’s plays have a rhyme scheme this is called blank verse, “written prodomintaly in blank verse, Othello also includes prose passages (many spoken by Iago) and rhymed couplets (which punctuate the ends of some scenes)” (DiYanni 1011). The character I took the most interest in was Iago. He is portrayed as the villain throughout the play. Iago claims that he always speaks the truth when everything is an elaborated lie to manipulate others. Iago is married to Emilia, it was surprising to me that he did have a wife because he doesn’t have a good view on women. He believes they are suppose to be servants and housewives. In his view lying and cheating is the way to get things done. What makes Iago one of the worst shakespeare villains is, he is out to
The Relationship Between Othello and Iago In this scene Iago persuades Cassio, who is on watch, to drink, knowing that he is not a drinker and that he will be easy to antagonise. Roderigo provokes Cassio into a fight and Othello, hearing the disturbance, arrives to find the nobleman Montano seriously injured. Cassio gives no explanation, Montano pleads self-defence, and say that Iago knows best, so Iago is ordered to speak, ' Iago, who began't? " This passage starts with Othello, who appears to have interrupted someone, as there is a line break.
Iago is a very strategic and clever person, and he despises Othello because Othello appointed Cassio as a lieutenant over Iago. He plans to ruin Othello’s life by ruining his relationship with Desdemona. He starts off by telling Desdemona’s father, Brabantio, of Othello and Desdemona’s secret marriage. Iago goes to
William Shakespeare’s Othello is a tragedy about revenge through jealousy and deception. Throughout the play, Iago is constantly pitting characters against each other in order to satiate his anger from being denied the promotion to lieutenant that Cassio was granted. As a catalyst for all the conflicts that arise during the play, Iago merely uncovers the underlying insecurities characters such as Othello, a notable war general in Venice, are struggling with. Animal imagery as well as the use of light and dark to differentiate between race is very prominent and is used to drive a wedge between the newlyweds, Othello and Desdemona. Although Othello is a highly accomplished and well respected war hero, the notion that Venetians, including Desdemona, are a superior race, prevents him from ever feeling truly secure in his marriage, ultimately leading to the demise of several people close to him, and finally himself.
Iago states that the only reason he spends time with Roderigo is for his own wealth and pleasure. His plan is to continue giving Roderigo unfulfilled promises. Iago continues to manipulate Roderigo. He convinces him that Desdemona will soon grow tired of Othello and begin to search for a younger, handsome man to fulfill her desires. Continuing to build on Rod...
Iago proceeds to tell the news of Desdemona and Othello's marriage to a shocked Brabantio. He uses offensive imagery, showing the extent to which he will go to win Brabantio's support against Othello. While not in the company of either Othello or Brabantio, Iago debases the marria...
When looking at Iago his actions are very similar to those of Richard the third the reaction of the people around him is very much different as is the reaction by the audience reading this play. Where in the text we see the characters hate Richard in Othello we see Iago being constantly called ‘ the good and honest Iago’. Looking through text he is called good Iago four times and honest Iago five times, which when asking audiences is nine times to many. One of the most important thing is that Iago himself mentions this honest side of himself in his own speech in act three of the play. In "The Art of Persuasion and Shakespeare’s Two Iagos." By Benjamin V. Beier he points out that ‘Much later in 3.3, Iago references his own “honesty and love”
Iago is a very cunning and mischievous person and his words reflect his character. This speech is when Iago begins to speak about his devious plot. Iago very bluntly says, “I follow him to serve my turn upon him”(Shakespeare), and this quote perfectly sums up Iago’s tone. He is very proud of his nature and had no problem with detailing his plot to others. This shows just how confident Iago is in his actions. He feels like he can boast about his plot before he knows how the situation will end. Iago is also very proud of his unfaithfulness when he says, “In following him, I follow but myself”(Shakespeare). Iago thinks his two timing qualities are something to be proud of. What Iago takes pride in shows just how flawed he is as a human being.
“Othello” is a tragic play written by William Shakespeare. The play focuses around a core group of characters that includes Othello, Iago, Desdemona, Michael Cassio, and Barbantio. These characters shape the story. The protagonist is Othello, who is a high ranking member of the Venetian army. Othello falls victim to betrayal by his “right-hand man,” antagonist Iago. Iago gives Othello the impression that he is trustworthy and a close friend, but this is a mask of his true feelings for Othello. Throughout the play, Iago repeatedly expresses his hate for his general. He devises plans to try to humiliate Othello. His first plans center around Michael Cassio, who is Othello’s lieutenant. When this scheme falls through, Iago then focuses on Othello’s