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Iago, the Hero of Othello? In William Shakespeare's tragedy, "Othello" we are able to see different ideas from who are real hero could be, but for me the ovbius reading of the work is that Othello is the hero, Cassio the innocent victim, and Iago the villain with no feelings in his heart. But could it be that we haven't been able to see the other side of this strong story? I believe that is the hero who suffers. He is the one who makes it. He fights, tries not to fall and does not give up, why should it be his fault, he might have been the one who had his wife and precious lady found sleeping with the one he admire the most his best friend Othello. And to make things worse Othello didn't gave him the position that they both knew he deserved. The only thing Iago had ever done was love Othello, and nothing else. In my paper I want to be able to make the point, that we can't just come to one conclusion in a book. We have to be able to and go deeper into the meaning of what makes "Villian" a villian. The actual villian might just be Othello. We can't blame people for everything they do, especially when they have a reason to act the way they do. In the book "The Count Of Monte Cristo" we all understood that Edmond Dantes set people up and destroyed them. Because we are able to see how things had gone from the beginning and why Dantes hated the characters he destroyed. Without that understanding, in the play "Othello," we are not able to understand why things go the way they do. And for that reason we are not able to see clearly the way that Iago feels and suffer. For he had his own story before all this happen Iago: "If I do not. Three great ones of a city,/ In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,/ Off-capped to him; and by the faith of man,/ I know my price, I am worth no worse a place./ But he, as loving his own pride and purposes,/ Evades them with a bombast circumstance,/ Horribly stuffed with epithets of war,/ And in conclusion,/ Nonsuit my mediators."/ ( act1, scene 1, line 9) Othello and Iago both knew that he was the right one for the place as lieutenant. He was capable of handling things maybe even better then anyone else. But Othello wouldn't listen to what he knew was right. He had the power to do anything and because he might have thought that the bets thing to do was to listen and to put more attention to other people, Othello chose this so called Forsooth, this so called great arithmetician, one Michael Cassio, that came from Florentine. Why shouldn't Iago feel isolated, as though Othello had just stabbed him in his heart? Even though Othello knew that Iago wanted to have that position and he knew fitted perfectly for it, Othello decided to go by what others,strangers, told him, and in a few words he ended his friendship with Iago. Iago: "Thus do I ever make my fool my purpose./ For I mine own gained knowledge should profane/ If I would time expend with such a snipe/ But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor,/ And it is thought abroad that 'twist my sheets/ 'Has done my office. I know not if 't be true,/ But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,/ will do as surety, he holds me well./ The better shall my purpose work on him./" ( act 1 scene 3 line 26) who wouldn't get upset,even though he tries not to let he feel as though it bothers him a lot that he has heard that Othello has been under his sheets of his wife? Most people who would find out that there might just be a chance that your wife or spouse could have slept with your best friend would have their heart trash. He had every right to be upset, but now that it all come together, which has brought him to pass the point, and his anger was thrown out of the limit. But the most questionable part of this entire book, I will have to say was the part when Iago kills his wife Emilia, which for me it was very hard to understand and even have an actual conclusion to put him as a hero, unless we try putting everything in a more realistic way, and trying to get into Iagos head. Emilia: "You told a lie, an odious, dammend lie!/ Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie!/"....(act 5, Scene 2, Line 216) Why did she just come out and betrayed her husband, Emilia had to know better then that, that wasn't her place, she didn't even knew the entire story, why did she have to come out from nowhere, when thetime was wrong. And there is a chance that she didn't even care about Iago, and she will do what ever she wanted when youless expected. When she came out with her story, Iago couldn't belive that the only person that still might be faithfull in his life, was the one who destroyed him as quick as the wind. Now the other question is what is Emilia's real story. But that will have to go in another essay. I could never see Othello as a hero for he was hardheaded and ignorant, without any real reason he ended upkilling his wife, not having any real proof to do so. Cassio was liek the kid of the play, sweet and innocent, but if any one was to mess with him he will fall in their trap as quick as possible. Iago then had his own tale from before teh play began and this tale was the cause of all that occured. Though at the end he dies, he is able to die with his last wish, been quiet for ever and never letting any one know more then what they saw, by him keeping hsi secrets in his head. All of this from his mental strenght to his wisdom and being sucha good soldier, it all makes Iago the perfect "Hero."
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The second part of the novel begins by Don Quixote expressing his frustrations with the author who published a fake sequel to the second part of his narrative. Don Quixote claims he does not want to malign the dishonest author, Avellaneda. However, Quixote is contradicting himself because he goes on ranting about how this counterfeit author should “hide his name and conceal his birthplace, as if he had committed some terrible act of treason against the crown” (Cervantes 456). Don Quixote then tells an anecdote about a madman who represents the deceptive author, effectively conveying his frustration with the plagiarist. However, one wonders why Cervantes included the tale of Avellaneda in his novel. Was it to belittle the deceitful author, to address his literary critics, or to create a metafictional world, that blurs the lines between fiction and fantasy?
Unfortunately he chose the wrong person to be advised by. Both Othello and Iago have their own goals and want to get the upper hand over the opponent. Othello’s goal is to get answers. Iago’s goal is to manipulate those people who as he thinks have hurt him. Even though Iago was lucky to mislead Othello, in the end nobody wins.
years did Cervantes find a patron. It was then that he had the time to devote
Although Iago’s justice can never be justified his anger pointed towards Othello can be. Despite all the rage, fury, resentment, prejudice, and anger Iago feels towards Othello; Iago feels all this and more to the appointed lieutenant Michael Cassio. For Cassio has never had experience on the battle field, “A fellow almost damn’d in a fair wife; That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows” (I.i.1). Iago also points out that “preferment goes by letter and affection” (I.i.2). Iago is well aware of the fact that he is more qualified for the position but choices are based upon brain and not achievements on the field. In Iago’s pursuit of destroying the Moor and achieving his rightful position he destroys so many lives. Michael Cassio is soon striped of his position due to Iago’s deceit. Othello’s fair wife Desdemona is murdered by her own husband after Othello’s mind is poisoned by the “honest” Iago.
Whether in madness or sanity, he does not truly become a knight errant and he does not remain one. Knight errantry, as he practices it, cannot be true knight errantry because he is from a different time and has only gleaned the rules of knight errantry from fiction. Fiction and fact are obviously two different things, and Don Quixote conflates the two. Those who knew Don Quixote before he became a knight errant; the priest, the barber, the housekeeper, and his niece, believe that he keeps undulating between madness and sanity. When he wants to go adventuring, they believe him to be mad. When he keeps these desires to himself or when he decides not to be a knight errant at all, they believe that he is sane. Sancho Panza does not seem to have a strong opinion on the subject. Eventually, he realizes that his master is crazy, but before that, and even after that moment, he does not treat Don Quixote much differently. Despite what others think of Don Quixote’s madness, if the knight errant side of Don Quixote is his true self, then his sanity inhibits his finding and realizing his self. He claims, while adventuring, “I am a knight of La Mancha, Don Quixote by name, and it is my business and calling to roam the world righting wrongs and redressing injuries (I., XIX).” In the same chapter, he goes on to say that, “‘The Knight of the Rueful Countenance,’ as I intend to call myself from this day forward; and that the said name may fit me better, I mean, when the opportunity offers, to have a very rueful countenance painted on my shield.” In this case, Sancho’s general approach to Don Quixote actually facilitates Quixote’s ability to continue his self-discovery and Quixote’s niece, housekeeper, and others, are hurting that same desire. If the sane side of Don Quixote’s mental state is his true self, then the knight errantry harms his ability to realize his true self. At the end of Part II, when Don
The main character falls in love with a female character that have quixotic features, wanting to change the world and therefore involve in many clubs and organization opposite to the main character, in a way the main character could represent Sancho. Here is the twist, after being dump, the main character decided he want to be a somebody and to impressed his ex ends up in the fiction island of San Marco, after some mishaps and the dictator trying to get rid of both the main character and the rebels and later rebels helping him out, the main character join the group. Later he become the leader of the island and return home in which he was sent to court for trying to take over the USA “from within and without” later to be sent free with the punishment of not moving in to his neighborhood. The film was a satire of politics, the same how Cervantes novel was a satire of chilrary romance. The full component and the concrete presentation of Don Quixote was not present, but hints of characteristic were such as having the main character in Bananas seek adventure to impress a
Of Shakespeare’s five greatest tragedies, Othello is by far the most passionate and gripping. It is a tale of love, deception, evil, honesty, and virtue. Othello himself is set apart from other Shakespearean tragic heroes by the absolute feeling of affection the audience feels for him even unto the very end of the play. Any discerning reader painfully recognizes the virtue and goodness of Othello throughout the entire play, in contrast to the general degeneration of character so typical of a tragic hero. It is this complete pity that makes the death of Othello so tragic as the audience lends their full hopeful support until the inevitable and unavoidable fall. The evil side of Othello’s tragic flaw came from without, in the form of Iago. The internal flaw exists only in his heartrendingly unshakable goodness and honor.
Though the name of the play written by William Shakespeare is called "Othello," the character Othello is not the main character, but rather Iago is. Iago is the character who drives the play, he is the one who makes things happen. Without his greed and hated, there would be no play at all. The whole play is centered around Iago's revenge and in doing so, he is willing to make other people's lives miserable. Through "Othello," Iago uses the other characters to avenge the wrong doings which Othello has inflicted upon him, and will go to any means to do so.
Iago has been excellent at saying the what is needed to get to people, he misleads them to get a reaction he wants out of them. He is clever with his words to avoid confrontation that can easily happen. “Othello 's confusion is the human experience of language. In other words, language itself, not the outside world, determines meaning” (Christofides 2). Iago uses his words against Othello to get him to do Iago’s doings. Iago has an eloquence with
From these eleven soliloquies the audience is pulled back and forth concerning their opinions of Iago’s character. He plays on the audiences pity, however also shows them his darker side. In the end, the audience is left with no doubt that Iago is nothing but evil and manipulative. I suppose one could say Iago was the true definition of a sociopath and cared for no one but himself. Not once did he show remorse or care for any other character in the play. The entire time he thought of schemes to get other characters to commit murder and be murdered in order to acquire his goal of gaining Othello’s title. His use of darkness and light, and deeper motives combine with his exterior ones exposed in his soliloquies, truly made him a hard character to analyze and predict, but allowed the audience to certainly place him as the detestable antagonist at the end.
He had been imagined himself as a knight-errant who established hoon Palace, winning a fief of the Kingdom. During his second adventure, Don Quixote and Sancho come to a field of windmills, which Don Quixote mistakes for giants. In this scene, Don Quixote had stumbled into "the dreadful and never-before-imagined adventure of the windmills." Don Quixote prepares to against an army of giants, despite Sancho Panza's all ready warning him. But Don Quixote wants plot the story appears consistent with the Knights. Don Quixote charging at one at full speed, and his lance gets caught in the windmill’s sail, throwing him and Rocinante to the ground. After it becomes clear, Don Quixote argues that an evil enchanter has transformed the giants into windmills in order to rob him of a dashing victory. This scene windmill gives me the deepest impression on Don Quixote is madman, and he had completely lost his sanity of real life. Of course, there are more scenes in the book also shows Don Quixote’s crazy movement, such as he’s seen the inn as a castle, seen the two sheep as the two forces, and so on. All his strange imagine make people laughing, but Don Quixote never tries to hurt anyone. Although people think that he is crazy. After all, a lot of people, including the Duke are willing to hospitality to him. As his squire Sancho, because he has been staying with Don Quixote for so
Shakespeare uses Iago and Othello as the main characters of the play, showing how Iago manipulates Othello into believing his wife is cheating on him. Iago, or “honest Iago”, the villain of the play, a perfectionist at manipulation, that manages to influence people into thinking his deceitfulness is an act of honesty. He spends all of his time plotting against Othello and Desdemona, eventually convincing Othello that his wife has been cheating, despite the fact that Desdemona has been completely faithful. Othello, Venice’s most competent general, and the protagonist of the play. He was a noble and respected war hero, and a loving husband, however he was the target of Iago’s atrocities, which lead him to become an irrational, violent, and insanely jealous husband who murders his own wife at the end of the play.
Almost all of his actions, plantings seeds of doubt (III, iii) or giving dangerous instructions (II, iii) lead to the tragic ending of the play. Even at the end, Iago refuses to explain his motives, by simply saying, “What you know, you know.” (V, ii). Perhaps this was Shakespeare’s way of saying not to look for a reason, but rather to appreciate what an amazing amount of cunning and patience this would’ve taken to pull off.
Humans are set apart from all other animals for one reason. We have the power of imagination and thus power to interpret what we read. Therefore, we can argue that the written word is the most meaningful of all types of communication. It is valid to say that if ten people read a book and were asked to retell the book in their own words that we’d hear ten different versions of the same book. In today’s society, our interpretations are feared. We might interpret anything contrary to the author’s intentional meaning. The author could then possibly be liable for any actions we take after reading his works. Don Quixote is one who consciously decides to interpret his books of chivalry as the right way of life and concurrently decides to live his own life in that manner. “I remember reading that a certain Spanish knight . . . having broken his sword in battle, tore a great bough or limb from an oak”(69). Since Don Quixote had read about this particular knight, he justifies it to himself that he too could also tear a limb from a tree and uses it as a makeshift lance. When Sancho asks if Don Quixote had any pain, he replies, “I do not complain of the pain…because a knight errant is not allowed to complain of any wounds”(69-70). Again, Don Quixote is going by a set of rules of chivalry that he obtained from his reading. At night, Don Quixote refuses to sleep “but thought about his Lady Dulcinea, to conform to what he had read in his books about knight errants spending many sleepless nights in the woodland and desert dwelling on the memory of their ladies”(70). I do not believe that Don Quixote is mad, as some may say, but that he is only interpreting what he has read to suit him. If Don Quixote were a real human in today’s society his family could very well sue the publishers of the books that he read, claiming that the books drove him to insanity and should not have been published. However, if all written works were feared in that context, then it is also a possible that all books are to be feared. This is shown when Don Quixote’s niece helps a priest and a barber to burn Don Quixote’s treasured books of chivalry. When the barber suggests that “These do not deserve burning with the rest, because they do not and will not do the mischief those books of chivalry have done”(61).