IAGO-antagonist

IAGO-antagonist

1. face theory-both negative/positive

   • face threatening in private or not in conversation with person or person present
   • face saving in public

2. refuses to conform to politeness/co-operative theory

   • negative things/interrupts= politeness failed
   • quantity/relevance/quality=co-operative failed
     • acts 1 scenne 1-quantuty> than Roderigo

3. master of convergence

   • downward convergence
   • downward convergence
     • mirror academic speech
   • lingustic method
     • shows that he is 'trustworthy'

4. Misogynistic

   • underminds wife emilia in public
     • Emilia in servitude to Iago
     • 'Sir, would she give you so much of her lips As of her tongue she oft bestows on me.'
   • banter with Desdemona
     • 'impotent'-questions his masculinity
   • groups all women to have same views
     • There’s none so foul and foolish thereunto, But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do.

5. skills stem from ethos/pathos/logos

   • logos
     • plays on schematic knowledge
       • 'enchanted'
         • black magic schematic knwledge
         • suggests daughter was tricked by Othello
         • 'drugs and minerals'
   • ethos
     • appeals to fear/weakness
     • hyberbolic/emotive language
     • fakes concern

6. Janus-roman God

   • reflects Iago's duplicitous character
     • two-faced calls everyone behind their back(two faced)
   • 'By Janus, I think no'
     • swears by him(act 1 scene 2)
   • irony

7. Raciest

   • 'thick lips'
   • 'moor'
   • 'abused'
   • 'warrent'
   • 'resist'
   • 'prison'
   • 'charge'

8. jealous

   • Cassio got the promotion
   • Othello's autjority
   • Othello's 'affair' with his wife