Identity, deception and appearance

Identity, deception and appearance

1. Manipulation

   • Pawns in Iago's plan
     • Emilia
     • Cassio
     • Roderigo
   • Overhearing of conversations
   • Theme of ocular proof

2. Virtue

   • Devil or vice
   • Motives
   • You either have it or you dont
   • Choice of good or bad

3. Iago

   • Moulds his own destiny
   • Pretends to be good and honest to get close to Othello
   • Makes truth and deception look the same
     • Speaks of deception
     • Work manipulation and knavery
   • Deception drives his characterisation

4. Hankerchief

   • Symbolic item to portray altered perception
   • Used by Iago as ocular proof
   • Taken by Emilia

5. Ocular proof

   • Hankerchief
   • Othello: "give me ocular proof"
   • Act 3, Scene 3 Lines 420-427: Iago lies but Othello sees it as proof