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OTHELLO :
PLOT
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FIRST ACT
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othello, a moor, general of the venetian army, secretly marries desdemona, daughter of a noblemen
iago, othello's attendant, pretends to be loyal to othello but is planninig to have cassio, othello's lieutenant, dismissed
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THIRD ACT
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he manages to create a situation to prove desdemona's unfaithfulness, he steals a handkerchief from desdemona ans he leaves it in cassio's room
FOURTH ACT
iago messes with othello's mind, who strangles his wife
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DATE, SOURCE AND SETTING
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the tragedy takes place in venice, because it's full of passion, jealousy and sexual tension
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CHARACTERS
OTHELLO
he's a dark-skinned moor, a general, a tragic hero. he has a passive-reactive behavior (PASSIVE= he marries desdemona, REACTIVE= he reacts to iago's plan)
DESDEMONA
she's the daughter of a senator. she's strong(she decides to die) and proposeful( she accetps to marry othello, against her father)
IAGO
othello's lieutenant, the real foundamental character
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"I AM NOT WHAT I AM"= ironic sentence, he tells the audience that, what they're going to see, is not him
CASSIO
he sould be considered inferior to iago but othello promotes him as lieutenant, so iago is jealous
RODERIGO
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he gets tricked by iag, he helps him to plan against the couple
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EMILIA
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she gets used and killed by iago, he uses as an excuse a love affair between emilia and cassio
THEMES
LOVE
true love between othello and desdemona and the untrustworthy, misogeny love between emilia and iago
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JEALOUSY
the tragedy shows how a jelous villain succceds in messing with a nobleman dealing with his own jealousy
BLACK vs WHITE
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othello is a black man with a white soul and iago is a white man with a black soul, they're opposite poles
SYMBOLS
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THE WILLOW TREE
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sadness, proof of a following death
GREEN
jealousy, insanity, othello's life, undouse othello's marriage
MOTIVS
contrast between darkness and light, black and white