"O blood, blood, blood!" III, iii, 460
Othello is most likely going to result in tragedy from all the foreshadowing about violence and death wishes. When ever someone is angry in this play they resolve to kill the one which the anger was caused or directed at, or themselves to escape the problem all together. With characters who value life so little, there will be life lost. Iago is setting up these characters precisely because he know exactly what makes them vulnerable and puts them into these compromising states. Iago knows that Othello loves Desdemona very much and would be most distraught if something were to happen to her, or if he found out that she were unfaithful. He knows that Cassio is a good man who values his job, so he takes that away from him to make him vulnerable. What is truly guineas, is, up until the third act at least, nobody even suspects him. This makes the preposed death toll even higher, because if this story line continues with out any of the main characters finding out, they will all kill each other.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Othello- Dramatic Suspense
"My Daughter! Oh My Daughter" I, iii, 62
Dramatic Suspense is created throughout this play with over dramatisations. Often time there are character who all of the sudden want to kill themselves or someone else, only to be talked out of it moments late. The obviously happened with Rodriego, When he was so distraught over losing the love that he never actually had that he wanted to end his life by drowning himself. This was all over a woman that he hardly knew, and he was talked out of it quickly. In the time between Iago talking him out of it and him proclaiming suicide, there is suspense created with the audience. Will he kill himself? Why would he kill himself? Possibly, they root for him to do it, because then they do not have to worry about him killing Othello, in a moment of pure insanity. Suspense is created, in the fact that it is a Shakespearean play, and some one has to die. The reader hopes that someone is not a main character, or tries to figure out who it is throughout the play.
Dramatic Suspense is created throughout this play with over dramatisations. Often time there are character who all of the sudden want to kill themselves or someone else, only to be talked out of it moments late. The obviously happened with Rodriego, When he was so distraught over losing the love that he never actually had that he wanted to end his life by drowning himself. This was all over a woman that he hardly knew, and he was talked out of it quickly. In the time between Iago talking him out of it and him proclaiming suicide, there is suspense created with the audience. Will he kill himself? Why would he kill himself? Possibly, they root for him to do it, because then they do not have to worry about him killing Othello, in a moment of pure insanity. Suspense is created, in the fact that it is a Shakespearean play, and some one has to die. The reader hopes that someone is not a main character, or tries to figure out who it is throughout the play.
Othello- Character
"I have never met a florentine more kind and honest" III, i, 39
The protagonist in this play is Othello, because he is the character to which all of the events in the story center around, or are in some way related to. He is the one who brought on such a wrath form Iago, by allegedly sleeping with Iago's wife. Iago is obviously the antagonist because of his evil plot to ruin Othello and Cassio. He is the one who make everything go wrong. If it were not for Iago, Desdemona and Othello could have had a happy relatively uneventful life. Since Iago plot to ruin the lives of many of the characters in this story, is incensere and insensitive, he is the clear foil of Cassio, who is kind and genuin. He is so innocent that he still does not know that he is being set up be Cassio, after he has been a pawn in a intricate chess game since before Iago got him drunk. He never questioned other peoples involvement because of the shame he puts on himself for slipping up. Iago appears to have not shame he switches from "honest" to cured in a spit second, with not so much as a second guess.
The protagonist in this play is Othello, because he is the character to which all of the events in the story center around, or are in some way related to. He is the one who brought on such a wrath form Iago, by allegedly sleeping with Iago's wife. Iago is obviously the antagonist because of his evil plot to ruin Othello and Cassio. He is the one who make everything go wrong. If it were not for Iago, Desdemona and Othello could have had a happy relatively uneventful life. Since Iago plot to ruin the lives of many of the characters in this story, is incensere and insensitive, he is the clear foil of Cassio, who is kind and genuin. He is so innocent that he still does not know that he is being set up be Cassio, after he has been a pawn in a intricate chess game since before Iago got him drunk. He never questioned other peoples involvement because of the shame he puts on himself for slipping up. Iago appears to have not shame he switches from "honest" to cured in a spit second, with not so much as a second guess.
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