Act 5, scene 1

Act 5, scene 1

1. Roderigo and Iago plan to kill Cassio

   • Win win situation for Iago
     • If Roderigo dies, he can keep his jewels
     • If Cassio dies, his plot will never unravel

2. Iago stabs Cassio in the leg and runs

   • Othello hears screams, believing Cassio's dead, so he turns to kill Desdemona
     • Othello's gone misogynistic
       • contrast poignantly from his declarations of love in 1.3
   • Coward

3. Roderigo is injured

4. Iago is caught by Graziano and Lodovico

   • Blames it on Roderigo
     • Kills roderigo
       • reveals the full extent of his treachery
         • He kills the character who he plotted onstage with since 1.1 in order to cover his tracks. Iago, basically, has no honour to lose.

5. Bianca enter, Iago makes her out to be an accomplice

   • misogynistic, and steretypical

6. Iago has Bianca arrested, and says to the audience "This is the night / That either makes me or fordoes me quite"