The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

Many many actors would love the opportunity to play Iago. It's a great role. There is no one actor who stands above the rest.

It is unfortunate, but black actors would probably not be allowed to play the part because of their race. This is because Othello is thought of as "a part for a black actor" and many people would be outraged at the idea of a white man playing the part with dark makeup. Consequently, the parts of Iago and Desdemona are not going to go to black people, but to white ones.

If Othello's blackness was thought of as a makeup issue rather than a racial restriction on the casting of the actor, then Iago's and Desdemona's whiteness could also be makeup issues and black actors and actresses would have a chance at those roles.

Macbeth might advise Othello to be wary of ambition and its consequences, drawing from his own experience of the destructive nature of unchecked ambition. Othello could caution Macbeth about the dangers of jealousy and trusting the wrong people, given how his own jealousy led to tragic outcomes.

Cassio

Two players can play the Othello board game. It is a strategy game where each player tries to "outflank" his opponent's pieces. The way to outflank the opponent's pieces is to have his color piece on each end of a row of his opponent's pieces. That allows him to turn his opponent's pieces into his own pieces.

In Act I Scene 1:Three great ones of the city,
In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,
Off-capp'd 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 stuff'd with epithets of war;
And, in conclusion,
Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he,
'I have already chose my officer.'
And what was he?
Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,
A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife;
That never set a squadron in the field,
Nor the division of a battle knows
More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,
Wherein the toged consuls can propose
As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise,
Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election:
And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds
Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd
By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,
He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,
And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.
Iago is jealous of Cassio's appointment to a superior rank, as this passage shows.

Well, not much, because it occupies only an exchange of lines in scene 1 of Act 4. We get the impression from Cassio's conversation with Iago that Bianca is somewhat high-maintenance, and sure enough she shows up, complaining that the handkerchief he gave her was a present from some other woman. Cassio tries to calm her down, but she says that if he's serious about her he should show up for supper with her, and off she flounces. Cassio tells Iago that he had better follow or "she'll rail in the street else." From this we learn that Cassio is a bit of a cheapskate, as he gives her a hankie he just happened to find in his room, and likewise an opportunist for taking advantage of the opportunity, but somewhat lacking in curiosity, since he doesn't wonder how it came to be there. He is also patient, and is concerned with public appearance, as he does not want to be embarassed by Bianca complaining in public.

He asphyxiates her

Ben Jonson's comedy Every Man in His Humour in which Shakespeare is believed to have acted, includes a jealous husband called "Thorello".

1 Not being able to trust Dedemona fully

2 his trust in Iago

3 his low self-esteem

4 he is black

I wasnt a napkin it was a Hankerchief, Othello gave it to Desdemno as a love gift, it was the first present he ever to gave her. Othello claims it has magical powers (this enhances the sense of unknown to Othello and his slave years and past). Othello get very paraniod as Iago gets his wife to steal it from Desdemno and plants the Hankerchief on an unsuspecting inocent Cassio. Iago then tells Othello that Cassio must be sleeping with Desdemona, Othello refuses these claims although he is insure and asks for "ocular proof" Iago then tells Othello that Cassio has got the Hankerchief. Very briefly, basically its a tool Iago uses to help trigger Othello's jelousy between Desdemona and Cassio.

If you are talking about Freytag's pyramid, the "climax" is always Act 3. In terms of dramatic tension, this reaches its peak when Othello is about to kill Desdemona.

"He who the Gods would destroy they first make great'

"Don't believe everything you hear and only half of what you see"

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"

"Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good."

Desdemona, daughter of Brabantio, was Othello's wife.

Iago uses comparisons of animals when talking to Othello of Desdemona's supposed affair with Cassio ('prime as goats, hot as monkeys...making the beast with two backs') to suggest the bestiality of the act, and to plant torturing images in Othello's mind.

The are many which all the characters face. The main one's for Othello, who is a fool for passion, include's, love, revenge, and a fight with one's conscience.

Desdemona slept with Othello in the play. And despite what Othello thought, he was the only guy she slept with.

Iago's plotting. Othello was susceptible to the particular line of attack taken by Iago, because Iago was a genius in spotting people's weaknesses and exploiting them. Othello was secretly unsure of his ability to command love in Desdemona, and so was easily persuaded that she did not love him. But if he had a different weakness, Iago would have exploited that just as effectively. Iago had no difficulty getting Cassio discharged just by knowing that he had a bad head for liquor.

Othello was written by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare clearly views the events of the play as tragic. He seems to view the marriage between Desdemona and Othello as noble and heroic, for the most part.

There is no novel of Othello, actually. The famous Othello is a play by Shakespeare. Plays are not novels.

If Othello was white, Othello wouldn't have been insecure, his relationship with Desdemona wouldn't be disapproved of and Iago might have hated Othello less.

That is, of course assuming that Othello is white and so is everybody else. If Othello were white and everyone else was black, the story would be much the same because Othello's insecurity stems from his feeling of otherness, his feeling that he was different from everyone else. Othello has in fact been staged in this way, with a black cast and a white Othello. It has also been staged with actors playing Othello who are not black but are different from the rest in some other way.

The principal characters are Iago, Othello and Desdemona.

His mistrust in his power to command devotion and jealousy.

Othello's mother gave him the handkerchief, and he gave it to Desdemona. When he sees Cassio with it, he assumes that Desdemona had given it to him.