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Fintan O’Toole- “There is no Othello without Iago” |
Iago is used as a device to bring to light Othello’s character and and Nature. Iago: “If thou dost have eyes to see, she has deceived her father and may thee”. Act 1 scene three |
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Honigmann- Iago “ enjoys a god-like sense of power”. |
“I am not what I am” act 1 scene 1 “Gardeners” Act 1 scene 3 “Strangle her in bed” Othello: “ Good good. The justice of it please. Good.” Act 4 scene 1 |
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Honigmann- Downfall due to his inability to sympathise. “Emilia’s love is Iago’s undoing”. |
Emilia: “I will speak as liberal as the north” “I will not charm my tongue” |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge- “the motive hunting of motiveless malignity”. |
“Has done my office, i know not if it be true but in mere suspicion, will do as if for surety” Act 1 scene 3 “Till I am evened from wife for wife” Act 2 scene 1 “What you know, you know. From this time I will never speak again”. Act 5 scene 2 |
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G Wilson Knight- Iago hates Othello’s romance and Desdemona’s loveliness because he is “by very nature the enemy of things” |
Regards positive qualities they possess as weaknesses. “The moor is of an open and free nature / that thinks men honest but seems to be so” act 1 scene 3 “So I will turn her virtue into pitch... make the net that shall emesh them all” Act 2 scene 3 |
