Category: Iago

Villainy is often born from jealousy, insecurity, and paranoia. Iago from Shakespeares Othello, though dubbed as motiveless, is no exception; what starts as an optimistic heterosexual romance ends as a tragedy brought about by homoerotic envy, competition, and fear of emasculation. The play is centered around a military environment, which puts emphasis on traditional indications…

Most other Shakespearean characters do terrible things to accomplish a specific objective. As a rule, the guilty party is aspiration, as in Macbeth, or retribution, as in Hamlet. The thing about Iago is that one never truly knows for certain why it is that Iago needs to pulverize Othello. All through the play, Iago gives…

In William Shakespeare’s play Othello, Shakespear uses diction in Iago’s monolog to further the plot and for the reader to higher apprehend who Iago’s character is and what his plan is. In addition to this, Shakespear moreover makes use of diction to create pathos to create a hateful and untrusting feeling towards Iago by portraying…

Shakespeares Othello is a tale of misplaced jealousy, deception, and tragedy. Iago, the main antagonist of the play, masterfully weaves a plan to bring down Othello, a general in the Venetian army and target of his manipulative schemes, by using his good reputation to mask his deceit and keep him close enough to Othello to…

Iago is the antagonist of Skaepeares play Othello. Iago is a big factor in this play. Although he is very clever and cunning, he uses his skills for evil. Perhaps one of the most intriguing Shakespeare characters, Iago is a fanatic villain. What makes him a fantastic villain is that he may have no motivation…

The epic poem Beowulf features two characters Grendel and Beowulf who are distinctive. Through the course of the story, Beowulf is a heroic warrior that saved the Danes, who were attacked by Grendel, a horrendous monster living as an outcast. As a matter of fact, Shakespeare identified this characterization technique in the year of 1600s…

How can one be so manipulative to the ones they call friends. Do factors such as greed, money, or even jealousy contribute to the bigger picture? In the Shakespearean play Othello, Iago sets out to manipulate everyone he comes in contact with to the point where it is hard for readers to figure out why…

The author behind one of the most well-known television series once stated that, A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies& The man who never reads lives only one. George R. R. Martin, the writer of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire later adapted into the HBO series Game of Thrones,…

We are going to analyse Othello, Iago and Desdemonas characters and how the web of lies engineered by Iago led to the demise of many characters. As Lee Jamieson has stated, Iago is jealous of Cassio for obtaining the position of Lieutenant over him, jealous of Othello- believing he bedded his wife- and jealous of…

Individuals discriminate for various reasons: dread, begrudge, the longing for power, or a need to disassociate themselves from others. They can, in this manner, utilize somebody’s skin pigment, a natural characteristic that cannot be modified, to communicate their scorn. Othello, in Shakespeare’s play Othello, is a joyfully hitched and broadly regarded general in the Venetian…