The first scene of Othello explains some of the more important themes that will be developed later in the play some of the main themes are racism, jealously and hatred, most of these are towards Othello.

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Othello

The first scene of Othello explains some of the more important themes that will be developed later in the play some of the main themes are racism, jealously and hatred, most of these are towards Othello.

         Othello begins on a street in Venice, with an argument between Roderigo and Iago, Roderigo has feelings for Desdemona and been paying Iago to help split her up with Othello so he can be with her, but Roderigo learned that Desdemona has married Othello, a general whom Iago begrudgingly serves as his assistant. Roderigo is annoyed with Iago because he paid him to split them up and that he hasn’t “ tush never tell me, I take it much unkindly that thou Iago who hast had my purse.” This scene shows that there will be lots of deceit and corruption in the play.

Lots of the hatred towards Othello comes from Iago who is supposed to be his friend, Iago is annoyed with Othello because he chose Michael Cassio for a promotion to the post of lieutenant that he thought he deserved, he attacks Cassio by saying ‘evades them with a bombast circumstance’ Iago tries to regain Roderigo’s trust by saying how much he hates Othello Iago hides his hatred for Othello cleverly by acting like a good friend and giving him advice, while Iago is doing all these friendly things he is planning to cause Othello’s down fall and plotting revenge against him behind his back. To get revenge Iago and Roderigo shout out to Brabrantio that his daughter Desdemona has been stolen by Othello and married him. Brabrantio finds that his daughter is indeed missing, and he gathers some officers to find Othello. Not wanting his hatred of Othello to be known, Iago leaves Roderigo and hurries back to Othello before Brabrantio sees him.

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 Iago admits that he isn’t what he appears to be ‘’I am not what I am’’ this makes the audience realize that Iago can’t be trusted and will only do things beneficial to himself. Iago is often funny, especially in his scenes with the foolish Roderigo, which serve as a showcase of Iago’s manipulative abilities, he constantly lies during the play and he doesn’t care who he hurts as long as he gets what he wants, the first impressions of Iago the audience gets is that he is a sly person who will only look out for himself this idea ...

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