Nature

Nature

1. Characters often refer to themselves and others as beasts and animals.

   • Iago: Othello and Desdemona’s relationship just lust, refers to them as ‘the beast with two backs’ when they have sex.
   • More animalistic sexuality when he says ‘a horned man’s a beast’. Innuendo implies characters acting out natural, animalistic desires not love.

2. Plants and growth

   • Iago says man's like a ‘garden‘, our behaviour in life depends on what you plant.
     • talks about the need to ‘weed up tyme’.
   • Othello to Desdemona as weed that ‘smells so sweet’ before he kills her.