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This 5 page paper explores the actions of Iago and Krogstad in Shakespeare's Othello and Ibsen's A Doll's House. Do the malevolent characters contribute to the disintegration of the marriages? Evidence given to support this claim. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the malevolent characters, such as those evidenced in Othello or Ibsens, A Dolls House, serve many purposes. In both of these plays, for example, the villain serves to sever the
strongest of bonds; the bonds of marriage. Of course, the argument indicates that perhaps the marriage was already doomed from the start. Certainly, one can make a good case in
both plays for this being the truth. In Othello the fact remains that both Othello and Desdemona come from differing backgrounds and value systems. They are also of different ethnicities.
Given that these factors already existed, it is quite likely that stormy time were ahead and were already set into a course of action that would have played itself out
regardless of Iagos intervention. Othellos loss of self esteem, his pride, his jealousy were his undoing. Iago simply exploited what was already an underlying character flaw.
Likewise, in A Dolls House, Nora was already frustrated at her husbands belittling talk. She is frustrated that her dreams are secondary to his. She is frustrated because she
is an intelligent woman that is not given an outlet for her natural intelligence. Therefore, one could make the very good case that Nora was in the process of discovering
her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, but rather exacerbates the situation and forces Nora to develop
her own independence when she otherwise might not have done so. However, to stop with these arguments, alone, does not do justice to the complexities of the characters, and it
also short-changes the motivations of the villains. What Korgstad and Iago have in common is that they are good studies of the human character. They are able to assess strengths
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