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A 5 page paper which considers whether Iago articulated his true motives and if they are plausible to the reader. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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more information on using this paper properly! In the history of literature, there is perhaps no character more complex than Iago, the antagonist of William Shakespeares play, The Tragedy
of Othello. It is Iagos intention to destroy Othellos life which fuels all of the plays action, for it is his manipulation of Othello which results in the Moorish
generals eventual descent into jealousy, rage, and murder. Iago freely admits to Roderigo his motives for wanting to ruin his commanding officers life in the opening scene of the
first act. Iago, feeling sorry for himself, explains that, "In personal suit to make me his lieutenant, / Off-cappd to him; and, by the faith of man, / I
know my price, I am worth no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd
with epithets of war, / And, in conclusion, / Nonsuits my mediators; for, Certes, says he, / I have already chose my officer. / And what was he? / Forsooth,
a great arithmetician, / One Michael Cassio, a Florentine / (A fellow almost damnd in a fair wife) / That never set a squadron in the field" (I.i.9-22). According
to Iago, Othello has passed him over for the position of lieutenant (or second in command), in favor of Michael Cassio, a man who, in Iagos opinion, is his military
inferior, and has seldom seen any active combat. His fury sparks Iago to expose details Othellos elopement to Desdemonas father, Venetian
Senator Brabantio, which puts his new son-in-law (a middle-aged man of color whom Brabantio believes to be an unsuitable match for his daughter) in a most unfavorable light. Iago
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