5/18/2023 0 Comments Othello race quotes![]() ![]() Once Othello flies into a jealous rage, Iago tells him to hide and look on while he (Iago) talks to Cassio. ![]() He manipulates his wife Emilia, Desdemona's lady-in-waiting, into taking from Desdemona a handkerchief that Othello had given her he then tells Othello that he had seen it in Cassio's possession. This plan occupies the final three acts of the play. After Iago engineers a drunken brawl to ensure Cassio's demotion (in Act 2), he sets to work on his second scheme: leading Othello to believe that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio. He has an ally, Roderigo, who assists him in his plans in the mistaken belief that after Othello is gone, Iago will help Roderigo earn the affection of Othello's wife, Desdemona. Iago plots to manipulate Othello into demoting Cassio, and thereafter to bring about the downfall of Othello himself. At the beginning of the play, Iago claims to have been unfairly passed over for promotion to the rank of Othello's lieutenant in favour of Michael Cassio. Iago is a soldier who has fought beside Othello for several years, and has become his trusted advisor. The ensign escapes any prosecution in Desdemona's death, but engages in other crimes and dies after being tortured. He is condemned to exile Desdemona's relatives eventually execute him. The Moor is arrested, transported from Cyprus to Venice, and tortured, but refuses to admit his guilt. The two men denounce the Moor to the Venetian Seignory. The ensign then seeks revenge by disclosing to "the squadron leader" (the tale's Cassio counterpart) the Moor's involvement in Desdemona's death. ![]() He demotes him, and refuses to have him in his company. The Moor misses his wife greatly, however, and comes to loathe the sight of his ensign. In gruesome detail, Cinthio follows each blow, and, when she is dead, the Moor and his ensign place her lifeless body upon her bed, smash her skull, and then cause the cracked ceiling above the bed to collapse upon her, giving the impression the falling rafters caused her death. Desdemona dies in an entirely different manner in Cinthio's tale the Moor commissions his ensign to bludgeon her to death with a sand-filled stocking. In Cinthio's tale, for example, the ensign suffers an unrequited lust for the Moor's wife, Desdemona, which then drives his vengeance. While Shakespeare closely followed Cinthio's tale in composing Othello, he departed from it in some details. Cinthio's tale may have been based on an actual incident occurring in Venice about 1508. While no English translation of Cinthio was available in Shakespeare's lifetime, it is possible Shakespeare knew the Italian original, Gabriel Chappuy's 1584 French translation, or an English translation in manuscript. There, the character is simply "the ensign". The character's source is traced to Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio's tale "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli Hecatommithi (1565). The role is thought to have been first played by Robert Armin, who typically played intelligent clown roles like Touchstone in As You Like It and Feste in Twelfth Night. Iago hates Othello and devises a plan to destroy him by making him believe that Desdemona is having an affair with his lieutenant, Michael Cassio. He is the husband of Emilia, who is in turn the attendant of Othello's wife Desdemona. Iago is the play's main antagonist, and Othello's standard-bearer. Iago ( / i ˈ ɑː ɡ oʊ/) is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello (c. ![]()
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