After reading this week's assignment after having already read Othello, I can't help but notice just how angry and petty Iago is even from the start. He truly sets out to be the villain and does a pretty good job at it. He's hateful and spiteful towards women and I find it funny that he is convinced that Othello has slept with his wife Emilia. Othello is portrayed as someone who is in love and loyal to Desdemona and also s very trusting person. It seems as though Iago is suspicious of Othello because that is something that Iago himself would do. He wants to cure his problem of Othello sleeping with his wife by sleeping with Desdemona, but I doubt that even that would solve his problems. He would continue to be even more suspicious. I think he's just a genuinely corrupted person.
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Interesting image you chose to include. Any thoughts on that? Do you know when it was published?
i also can't believe he's constructed this revenge plot because of a mere suspicion, which he decides to treat as fact with NO evidence..like he's looking for a reason to strike.
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