A Doll's House Vs Othello

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Every good piece of literature has to have a character we love to hate. The character that’s gets under our skin with every word that leaves his or her mouth, or their actions that make us cringe with disgust. This antagonist does whatever they can to make life more difficult or the hero or heroine of the story. If we have these feelings toward a character in a story than a writer has done his or her job well, because without these characters we would not continue to turn the pages of the book to see what will transpire between them. In both Othello and A Doll’s House, we have antagonists that create drama that draws us in. In Othello we have Iago, who had so much jealousy and anomosity towards Othello that he spent every waking moment …show more content…

Iago is not at all what he seems.What he deams is good for him is acutually bad for others , people repeatedly rely on him, however he just turns around and betrays them. From the very beginning of the play, we are very well aware of Iago’s feelings towards Othello. Iago is upset with Othello, because he was not chosen to be Othello’s leutenant, but instead it was Cassio. Iago believed he was more suited for the job despite the fact that he had very little military expereince. From that momement on, Iago began to plot his revenge against Othello, which included convincing Othello that his wife was unfaithful with non other than Cassio. From this point on in the story Iago goes through great lengths to ensure his plan will come to fruition. Iago works his plan so that all of those around him will in the end bring each other down, he is only planting the seed in each of their ears. When Cassio is demoted, Iago convinces him to go and speak to Desdemonda, Othello’s wife, to help convince Othello of giving him his position back. Iago has already planted the seed in Othello’s ear that it is Cassio who his beloved wife is being unfaithful with. As Desmonda contiues to plead for Cassio’s position back, and Cassio continues to display suspicious behavior around Othello, the seed in which Iago planted only begins to grow. In the end Othello kills Desmonda, Iago kills Cassio, and Othello kills himself , and Iago

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