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Othello Iago's Jealousy

A Web of Lies
In Shakespeare's "Othello" we are told a tale in which there is much manipulation amongst a group of nobleman for the potential of various personal gains. Whether one man wanted another man's wife, or a man wanting a political promotion, most characters were somehow involved in lying, stealing, and murdering to get their goals, no matter how ruthless the manner they went about doing it. Regardless of all the actions that took place in "Othello", the driving force behind all of them was the jealousy of a man named Iago.
The theme of jealousy is much apparent to even the casual reader as the words "jealous" and "jealousy" appear in the play 16 times, which mostly occur in the crucial act III, scene III where Othello confronts Desdemona. Yet the first direct reference to Iago's jealousy occurs in the soliloquy in act II, scene I; where he muses on a plot to ruin Othello, "Or, failing so, yet that I put the Moor At least into a jealousy so strong That judgment cannot......


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