Othello
- Submitted by: koolkat
- Views: 84
- Category: English: Shakespeare
- Date Submitted: 10/26/2015 04:51 AM
- Pages: 4
- Report this Essay
Othello
Explore the ways Shakespeare influences the audience’s dislike or sympathy for Iago in Othello.
Throughout out the play Othello there are many techniques that Shakespeare incorporates in to influence the audiences dislike or sympathy of the character Iago. Act 1 scene 1 is where the audience first meet Iago so they get to make a first impression of him on whether they like the character or they don’t. Shakespeare in this scene starts off with Iago and Roderigo talking about Othello and how he hates him because he chose someone else for the promotion over him who is not experienced as him on war. A quote to support what I am saying is “A fellow damned in a fair wife, /that never set a squadron in the field.” This is showing that Othello in his eyes is a fool who didn’t pick him the best person for the job but someone else who never sat a foot on a battlefield.
It makes the audience feel sorry for him as he didn’t get picked so they can feel sympathy towards the character because he was the best man for the job in his eyes but was never promoted. This is why Iago hates Othello because he didn’t get to move up in the class of his work. The word “Never” shows how inexperienced Cassio really is and for Iago it is embarrassing that he never picked but someone else not as good as him. In Iago’s eyes he hates Othello because he didn’t gain the promotion which he wanted but if that wasn’t bad enough he gave the promotion to someone who didn’t deserve it and doesn’t have the knowledge and experience of war that he has.
The audiences opinion throughout the play of Iago changes as when they might have been giving sympathy to Iago at the start for his actions against Othello. However this changes as Iago has no real reason behind what ever he is doing it is just because he is evil.Iago was famously described as ‘Motiveless Malignity’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He thought that Iago has no motive for the things he is doing the sole reason is that it because he...
Explore the ways Shakespeare influences the audience’s dislike or sympathy for Iago in Othello.
Throughout out the play Othello there are many techniques that Shakespeare incorporates in to influence the audiences dislike or sympathy of the character Iago. Act 1 scene 1 is where the audience first meet Iago so they get to make a first impression of him on whether they like the character or they don’t. Shakespeare in this scene starts off with Iago and Roderigo talking about Othello and how he hates him because he chose someone else for the promotion over him who is not experienced as him on war. A quote to support what I am saying is “A fellow damned in a fair wife, /that never set a squadron in the field.” This is showing that Othello in his eyes is a fool who didn’t pick him the best person for the job but someone else who never sat a foot on a battlefield.
It makes the audience feel sorry for him as he didn’t get picked so they can feel sympathy towards the character because he was the best man for the job in his eyes but was never promoted. This is why Iago hates Othello because he didn’t get to move up in the class of his work. The word “Never” shows how inexperienced Cassio really is and for Iago it is embarrassing that he never picked but someone else not as good as him. In Iago’s eyes he hates Othello because he didn’t gain the promotion which he wanted but if that wasn’t bad enough he gave the promotion to someone who didn’t deserve it and doesn’t have the knowledge and experience of war that he has.
The audiences opinion throughout the play of Iago changes as when they might have been giving sympathy to Iago at the start for his actions against Othello. However this changes as Iago has no real reason behind what ever he is doing it is just because he is evil.Iago was famously described as ‘Motiveless Malignity’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He thought that Iago has no motive for the things he is doing the sole reason is that it because he...