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Othello and Antigone

Othello, takes place in Venice during an attack of the island of Cyprus . The protagonist is Othello and The antagonist of the story is Iago, who wants Othello to give him the rank of head luitenant but the position was given to Cassio. Desdemona is Othello's wife who is having an affair with Cassio. Roderigo, is a character madley in love with Desdemona; and Emilia , who is iago's wife. The heart of this story is trajic. Although Othello is a noble warrior, he is a jealous person . with this, most of the play portreys the factor on jealousy which causes corruption. Many conflicts are found in Othello, man vs. man is one . also, when Iago seeks revenge against Othello and Cassio because of his hatred and jealousy for them. Person vs. himself is also found when Othello has a problem with whether or not he should believe that Desdemona is cheating on him. . one lesson , in which, readers can learn from the play is that "jealousy causes corruption in many ways such as dishonesty which was portrayed by Iago".At the end of the play, Desdemona dies, iago has no guilt ; even when iago was dieing , he doesn't have any remorse for anyone. However, Iago was not fully to blame for desdemona's death, Othello also caused Desdemona to die, his jealousy and his and overzealous attidude cause it. Even in the end of the play , Othello doesn't know what his drive and motivation for killing the woman of his life. Shakespeare uses Othello's diction to diplay his untrusted perception of his wife.Another asset used by Shakespeare to contribute to the "depiction" of Othello's devastation is "Biblical allusions" which Othello draws to the reader. There is a scripture in the Bible about Job, who God decides to test by taking his riches, losing his loved ones and leaving him without anything. Othello assumes and says that he would "rather have this man's fortune than the jealousy and pain that is inflicted upon his mind by Desdemona's supposed...

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