scene i and ii
Note that this is the last posting about Othello that I will do. Othello definitely should have drowned Iago as he almost did earlier in the movie. That would have prevented all of this from happening. You know Iago doesn't feel guilt, and you know that he'll never disclose his reason why. It's crazy that Emilia didn't find anything suspicious in Iago wanting that handkerchief that badly. It's crazy that Othello didn't just talk to the people he had problems with.
Problems, big or small, can almost always be solved when you talk directly to the person you are having a conflict with. Jealousy, I feel, can only be solved this way. This place is a great reminder of the dangers of not taking such actions when the offenses are small, and instead waiting until they rage inside of you and cannot be quenched.
Awesome Iago symbolism scene:
As Iago is running from the men that are trying to apprehend him after he's been exposed as the liar and evil man he is, he bursts into the room where Roderigo is supposedly laying dead.
Roderigo's eye's flicker open and see Iago, then he rolls over and points to him accusingly. As Iago backs away in fear, the next door opens and the men take hold of him.
I love the image that the dead speak against him. Even Lodovico, in the final lines of the play, says this.
"O Spartan dog,
More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!
Look on the tragic loading of this bed;
This is thy work: the object poisons sight;
Let it be hid."
You have a nag for symbolism. What made you want to read Othello over? That is pretty cool that you are taking time to do that.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Matt! I wanted to read it again because I've had a lot of problems with jealousy in my life lately, whether from me or friends or other people. Reading this, actually, really calms me about the issue. It helps me see and avoid it, and in a way, it was like therapy!
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