Emilia

Deception “O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked,” stated T.S. Eliot a renowned American poet and playwright. This quote is the basis for several inferences, the main one being that people are deceptive and often have malicious intentions. This inference is quite realistic too as illustrated through two texts: The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger and Othello by William Shakespeare. A…

and he cleverly manipulates in order to achieve his aims. He used Roderigo’s love, Cassio’s trusting nature, Othello’s insecurity and Emilia’s love as a wedge to cause Othello downfall because he heard the rumor that Othello had slept with his wife Emilia and to seek revenge Othello’s for naming Cassio as a lieutenant.…

tell anyone but Roderigo, who he eventually kills regardless. Even Iago’s wife Emilia did not expect her husband to be responsible for the direct and indirect deaths of five people – not including himself. Emilia knew he was hiding something from her, but his behaviour kept her at a distance. When Othello first discovers that Iago led him astray, he chases after him. In this moment, the power dynamic shifts, because Emilia, before Iago so brutally murdered her, revealed Iago’s plot with the…

pays the clown to tell Desdemona’s aide Emilia he wishes to speak with her and the clown leaves. Iago enters and tells Cassio he will send for Emilia and find a way to distract Othello while he speaks with her. When Emilia arrives, she tells Cassio Desdemona is defending him to Othello and while Othello still likes him, he cannot reinstate him because of his crime. Cassio asks Emilia to arrange a time where Desdemona and he can speak in private, and Emilia…

believes that because he’s honest and honorable, that everyone else is the same way. Even Iago knows this about Othello, and uses it against him: “The Moor is of a free and open nature/That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, / And will as tenderly be led by th’nose” (1.3.389-391). This trust and faith in his peers is broken by the end of the play, not only because of the accusations against Desdemona, but also Iago’s constant questioning of Othello’s trust in her. Iago breaks Othello’s…

motivation for the things he does. In the first scene, Iago claims that he is mad at Othello because he had decided not to pick Iago for the position of lieutenant. At the end of Act I, scene 3, Iago says that he suspects that Othello and his wife, Emilia slept together. During Act II, scene 1, at the end Iago brings up this again that he thinks othello is sleeping with his wife, describing that he desires Desdemona sexualy so that he can even the score with Othello. None of the examples…

difficult to find strong female role models such as the ones in Shakespeare’s plays. In Othello, by William Shakespeare, Emilia and Desdemona are both very strong female characters. Desdemona is strong because of her response to being called demeaning words by her husband, her ability to overlook race and class and her unwillingness to blame and be angry at Othello. While Emilia is strong for other reasons. However, Desdemona…

appear as if Desdemona is being unfaithful, when she is being everything but. One example of when Othello is completely blind of reality is when Iago is talking to Cassio about Emilia. Othello thinks that Cassio is describing his sexual interaction with Desdemona when he is actually talking about his sexual interaction with Emilia. To add onto his blindness to reality,…

From start to finish Iago moves the characters of Othello as though they were chessmen. He utilizes their individual goals and interests to spur them to whatever insidious arrangement he wants. His dexterous control of those characters go from persuading Roderigo to serve Cassio another glass of wine, to driving Othello to the conclusion that lone by slaughtering Desdemona might he be able to spare himself and humanity from her slippery demonstrations of treachery. In any case, for every…

In No Fear Shakespeare, Othello is the hero, a highly respected general of the armies of Venice, although he’s not a Native of Venice but rather a Moor. He is a very powerful figure and is very much respected by those around him. Feminist best explains Othello, because his mind is twisted and messed up because of Iago’s lies saying that his wife Desdemona was cheating on him, by Iago telling him these lies Othello believes him and that is how it drives Othello to do the things he had done as the…