So I was trying to multi-task last night and I think I was pretty successful. I was able to watch Harry Potter, finish my English paper, and work on this blog post. I must admit Othello has to be one of the more interesting stories we’ve read all semester (in my opinion) and it’s one that I really enjoyed, probably because it’s a plot that I enjoy reading. Iago has to be one of the most cunning characters out of all the books I’ve read; I forgot which culture it was that put an emphasis on being their skilled with words, but Iago would definitely fit into that time era. The best part is that he never really lies to anybody, he allows people room to make their own judgements of what is going on which plays on their insecurities. I think the only person that doesn’t fully trust Iago has to be Desdemona, she’s a smart woman who is able to see through his cunningness, but I think that’s why she doesn’t really have a relationship with Iago. Even Emilia doesn’t really believe Iago, but she’s willing to ignore it and follow him.
Othello and Cassio are too trusting of Iago, but that makes them even more susceptible to Iago’s cunningness. Iago loves to play off of Othello’s insecurities and get him riled up. I think that his insecurities are what caused him to believe Iago’s words, but it’s also Iago who psychologically plays with his mind and keeps hinting that Desdemona is cheating on him. Iago had even done the same thing to his wife Emilia, because he always demeans her and eventually she starts to think less of herself, but it’s difficult to see if she thinks less of herself in this story. It’s something that I’ve often seen in reality, if someone tells you you are something than eventually you start to believe it yourself. Othello falls into Iago’s trap and it’s difficult for him to overcome it because Iago keeps hinting that Desdemona is cheating on him. I think that if Othello could overcome his insecurities than he wouldn’t have done what he did, and Iago would probably be condemned from having anything to do with them.
There was one thing that I found kind of weird. I believe it happened in the second act where Iago told Othello to hide and he would expose the truth of what was really going on. When Iago was talking to Cassio, Othello was hiding, but Iago said something about how’s that whore, Bianca of yours (or something like that) so wouldn’t Othello have heard the name Bianca? This is assuming that I read it correctly, because I could’ve sworn that I read that Iago said Bianca’s name. If he did, then why didn’t Othello hear it? Or was it something that he overlooked? Another thing is that didn’t everybody in the army know about Bianca? So why didn’t Othello once think that it was Bianca that he was talking about and not Desdemona? If Cassio is as good a friend to Desdemona as we assume, why would he call her a whore? That part kind of irritated me because I felt that there were better ways to get the job done, and even if Iago kept telling Othello, about his suspicion, Othello denied it, but yet it was easy for Iago to convince him it was so.
Anyhow I’m pretty stoked for the class to almost be over, and the things I’ve learned in this class will probably stick with me forever which means I’ll be over analyzing movies when I should be sitting down and enjoying them~
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