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Iago's Presentation Of Love In Othello By William Shakespeare

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Love is a strong overall theme throughout the play Othello, written by William Shakespeare. In the lines
223- 247 of Act 2 scene 1 on page 80 love becomes a very prominent topic as Iago coerces Roderigo into helping him. Iago’s innate ability to manipulate shines through particularly in this speech while he convinces Roderigo to work with him in getting Cassio fired from his job. However, what Iago does is not to benefit Roderigo in getting Desdemona to become infatuated with him but rather has to do more so with Iago getting revenge on both Othello and Cassio. While trying to do this he describes throughout his speech why Cassio is more suited for Desdemona than Othello is. Despite being married to Emilia, Iago has fairly distorted views
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