https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago Made with an open mind en-us 2019-04-01 09:46:28 UTC 2026-03-26 05:16:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347096825 Iago is misogynistic - strongly prejudiced against women. Jacobean portrayals often reduce women to saints, mothers or whores.]]> 2019-04-01 10:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347096825 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347097514 The whole thing's really his fault]]> 2019-04-01 10:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347097514 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347097752 Iago is a motiveless malignant, who's aim of becoming second in command is quickly overturned to present him acting out of pure spite and his hateful nature]]> 2019-04-01 10:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347097752 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347097828 Iago’s success lies in his ability to distort and pervert what should be other characters’ most positive traits]]> 2019-04-01 10:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347097828 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098148 Iago is the conductor or composer adjusting and controlling the plot from the outset

]]> 2019-04-01 10:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098148 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098266  Iago portrays Desdemona as lustful, desperate to trade Othello for a more refined Cassio.]]> 2019-04-01 10:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098266 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098307  To Bradley Iago is not a violent man ‘but a thoroughly bad, cold man, who is at last tempted to let loose the forces within him, and is at once destroyed.’ He thinks that the important question about Iago is ‘Why?’ and comes to the conclusion that his vanity, love of power, ego and ability to plot combine to bring out the evil in him. He is a monster for doing monstrous things, but he is a human monster.  ]]> 2019-04-01 10:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098307 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098413 What is perhaps scariest about him as a 'villain' is how he doesn't resort to physical violence, but rather manipulates those around him, to provoke them to further his plans]]> 2019-04-01 10:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098413 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098483 Iago’s reputation for straightforward honesty is the foundation of his deceptions. Iago’s crude language is excused as that of a straightforward soldier]]> 2019-04-01 10:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098483 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098766  Coleridge is marvelling at the fact Shakespeare could create such an evil figure, like the Devil, but still human. ]]> 2019-04-01 10:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098766 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098806 Iago's main aim is discord - his main aim is to disrupt order and essentially portray Othello in a negative light in all a get rid of Othello ]]> 2019-04-01 10:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098806 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098880 Iago is controlling and has manipulation over Othello and Desdemona's relationship. Shakespeare shows this through the metaphor of Othello and Desdemona as ‘well tuned’ string instruments, which portrays their current harmony but also implies their vulnerability and h is not difficult for Iago to ‘set down the pegs’ – fiddle with the tuning keys – of their relationship. ]]> 2019-04-01 10:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098880 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098909 Iago's speech is in prose, like many of his asides.]]> 2019-04-01 10:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098909 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098965  Fred West argues that Iago has all of the psychological traits of a psychopath. West wrote “It is not sufficient to simply drape Iago in allegorical trappings and proclaim him Mister Evil or a Machiavel or a Vice. Such a limited view of Iago is an injustice to the complexity of his character.]]> 2019-04-01 10:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347098965 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347099037 Iago's power over Roderigo is emphasised through his sentence structure. Repeated imperatives begin the speech: 'Come hither', 'Lay thy finger thus', 'let thy soul be instructed', 'Mark me'. All are instructions to be quiet and listen, which Roderigo submissively obeys. ]]> 2019-04-01 10:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347099037 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347099354 iago is misogynistic. But a historicist reading could examine his depiction of women as a product of his time and culture.]]> 2019-04-01 10:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347099354 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347099380 2019-04-01 10:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347099380 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347099481 Not only is Iago misogynistic throughout, but he is also racist, often referring to Othello as 'the devil' or 'defective', and uses this to show how Desdemona can't really love him to Roderigo]]> 2019-04-01 10:45:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347099481 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/iago/wish/347099879  a historicist reading could examine his depiction of women as a product of his time and culture.

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