HomeWork #1

Homework #1

“Respond to Iago Actions”

The reasons for me to analyzed and comment about the actions that Iago made in this play are based in the importance that he represent, he is the villain of this story and he is the one that maintain Othello play interesting. So, here my focus will be why he hated so much Othello and what things he makes to affect Othello life.

The first thing that Iago do to start shaping his evil plan is the alliance he made with Rodrigo. The reason for Rodrigo to make the alliance with Iago is because he is in love with the wife of Othello named Desdemona. Another action that we sew in Act 1 is the betrayal of Iago to Othello in reveling to Branbantio (Desdemona father) that Othello is marrying her daughter in secret. This action was quite intelligent in the way that Iago uses Rodrigo to send the message of the secret wedding to Branbantio and by doing this almost get rid off of Othello. On the other hand Othello and Desdemona find the way to convince his father and the Duke of Venice to continue with they relationship. Later on in the play Iago use another strategy to hurt Othello by using Michael Cassio (Othello’s Lieutenant) reputation of being a ladies man to make Othello think that Cassio and Desdemona were having an affair. This master plan of Iago makes Othello fight with Cassio because he believes that some between Desdemona and Cassio is happening.