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Mind Map by lucy.moffatt, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by lucy.moffatt
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How could tragedy have been avoided?
- Othello's characteristics
- Othellos Lack of judgment
is explored throughout the
play and is highlighted by
the plays dramatic irony:
the audience knows what
is going to happen to the
characters
- Othello chooses to
trust the wrong
people putting trust
in the villain
"Honest Iago"
- The audience knows that if Othello put trust in his faithful wife Desdemona,
then the tragedy would not have occured
- The audience knows that if Othello put trust in his faithful wife Desdemona,
then the tragedy would not have occured
- If Othello questioned defective evidence, tragedy
could have been avoided. In act 3 Scene 3, Iago
easily manipulated Othello convincing him that
circumstantial evidence is as good as visual
evidence. Iago's gullibility is explored further when
Iago tells Othello a dream Cassio had about
Desdemona. After this Othello is convinced of her
unfaithfulness and vows for revenge against her
"I'll tear her to pieces"
- Othellos Lack of judgment
is explored throughout the
play and is highlighted by
the plays dramatic irony:
the audience knows what
is going to happen to the
characters
- The Villainy and intelligent nature qualities of Iago
- Iago's villainous nature is highlighted within his
gripping soliloquies
- "Now, I do love her too... Not out of
absolute lust- through peradventure"
- "Now, I do love her too... Not out of
absolute lust- through peradventure"
- Iago's constant references to predator prey relationships throughout
this play further highlight his villainy
- "With as little web as this I will
ensnare as great a fly as
Cassio"
- "With as little web as this I will
ensnare as great a fly as
Cassio"
- Iago's villainy fuels his
revengeful ideas, leading to
the eventual downfall of the
plays tragic hero
- "Yet that I put the Moor at least into a
Jealousy so strong that judgment cannot
cure"
- Iago's villainous nature is highlighted within his
gripping soliloquies
- Iago using key women throughout the play
- Desdemona at the start of the play is introduced as
powerful as the decieved her father by marrying Othello.
- "She did deceived her father marrying you"
- "She did deceived her father marrying you"
- Desdemona's kindness
toward Cassio "I will do all
in my abilities in thy behalf"
- It is then Iago is able to 'plant'
the 'seeds' of doubt into
Othello's mind"
- It is then Iago is able to 'plant'
the 'seeds' of doubt into
Othello's mind"
- Iago uses her love and trust
towards to moor to exploit him
being unfaithful to him "go in, and weep not; all things shall be well:
- EMELIA
- Uses her to seek revenge on the Moor
- He asks her to steel Desdemona's
handkerchief "I nothing but to please
his fantasy"
- He asks her to steel Desdemona's
handkerchief "I nothing but to please
his fantasy"
- Uses her to seek revenge on the Moor
- Desdemona at the start of the play is introduced as
powerful as the decieved her father by marrying Othello.
- Othello acts as a lesson about the
power and mistrust of deception,
falling for simple minded proof and
the destructive forces of Jealousy.
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