The Jealous and Selfish Characters of Shakespeares Othello :: GCSE English Literature Coursework

The Jealous and Selfish Characters of Othello In the bleed Othello, there be many prehensile and egocentric characters. Each of the characters at one blockage or a nonher let their jealousy take over. It seems like they totally have these plots and plans on how to hurt another character in the play either physically or emotionally, as an act of selfishness, so that they enkindle feel better about themselves. One main character who seems passing jealous in this play is Iago. Infact, probably the most jealous. Many mischievously things happen because of Iago. The first bad thing that Iago did, was tell Barbantio (Desdamonas father) that Desdemona has married Othello, the Moore. Iago was ill at Othello, because Cassio had frenziede Othello a higher position and not Iago. Iago design that he was the one who qualified for the position as general, not Othello. Iago was jealous because of this, so he decided to tell Barbantio about Desdemona and Othello. This was bad, because B arbantio did not sock yet, and something like that should have been said by his own daughter, not soulfulness who was not part of the family. The way Iago went about telling him was also bad. He called to his house in the middle of the night. He yelled it to Barbantio from downstairs into his windowpane in a rude manner. quote from Othello here. He wanted Barbantio to be upset about what had happened, and most of all, he wanted Barbantio to be mad at Othello and do something bad to him. This was an act of selfishness on Iagos side. Iagos main discernment for doing all this, was not to inform Barbantio, but to make e veryone dislike Othello so that he could become general. Roderigo also helped out with telling Barbantio about Othello and Desdamonas eloping. The curtilage Roderigo did this, was not to let Barbantio know for his purposes, but merely for his own selfish reasons. Just as Iago did. Roderigo was in love with Desdemona and wanted to marry her. When he found out that Ot hello had already married her, he wanted to thump rid of him so that he would still have a jeopardize with her. I think that Roderigo may have known that he did not have a chance with Desdemona and that she really did love Othello, and that made him very jealous. He did not like Othello because of this, and thats why he wanted to drop off his reputation.