Questions About Othello

Questions about Othello

1. What is Iago trying to make other people think?
 
    Iago is trying to make Desdemona feel useless, but he end up insulting his own wife by doing that. He thinks that messing with Desdemona's mind will help him mess with Othello's mind, that is his prime objective.


2. What tact is does Iago rely on to make his victims believe him?

  Iago usually talk to people like he really knows them, as if he knew everything about their life and feelings, and by doing that he seems confident about what he is talking about. When he talks about wife cliches he is almost humiliating his own wife, Emilia, and Desdemona, but he makes it sound has he was just making a comment on their housewife lives.

Questions from Othello Act I Scene I


1. Why do Iago, Roderigo, and Brabantio all hate Othello (the Moor)? 

Iago and Roderigo hate Othello the Moor, manly because he is different from all the rest of the population from Venice. He is from Egypt and this is way he suffer from prejudice. Brabantio also hates him, he have problems with his skin color too, but his hate comes more from the fact that Othello married his daughter, Desdemona.

2. What are Iago's reasons for continuing to follow his master, Othello -- even though he hates him?

Iago believes that if he is close to Othello it will be easier to "destroy" him. And since he would be working for Othello because of his own reasons he would not be a slave, he would be a person "with soul".