Act 2 Scene 1

Act 2 Scene 1

1. AO2

   • Foreshadowing
   • Metaphor
   • Drawn out scene
   • Personifictaion
   • Symbolic
   • Irony
   • Rhyming Couplets
   • Light Tone
   • Stagecraft
   • Solioquy

2. AO4

   • Love
   • Blindness
   • The Tragic Villain
   • Tragic Victim
   • Tragic hero

3. Themes

   • Chaos
   • Deception
   • Prejudice
   • Sexuality

4. AO3

   • Elizabethan believed Cyprus to be a place of diaster due to War
   • Marxist Critical reading
     • Iago's desire for a change is reflective of the shifting economic system that was becoming apparent in Elizabethan England
   • Audience
     • Modern
       • Desdemona's confidence would have been refreshing
     • Elizabethan
       • Would have felt uncomfortable with Desdemona's sexuality awareness

5. Plot

   • Strom struck Cyprus
   • Cassio arrives
   • Iago and Desdemona arrives
   • Iago and Desdemona get into a jokey argument
   • Othello arrives
   • Iago convinces Roderigo that Desdemona will leave Othello
   • Iago starts to plan