Iago can't go wrong in Act 5, scene 1, as the fight between Roderigo and Cassio wounds Roderigo and gives Iago a chance to hamstring Cassio. Both men are lying on the floor, Iago's accomplice injured and dying, the man he was meant to kill injured and probably dying.
Gratiano and Lodivico are high ranking officials, and have been conditioned not to run to an unknown person's aid. In this instance, it is Cassio and Roderigo who are injured, and give no threat to the two officials, but it could be part of a ploy to assassinate the two high ranking men. As they are unsure, they stay back to stay safe.
Iago uses the fact that Bianca is a prostitute and should have no ties to anyone to his advantage. She shouldn't love Cassio enough to be crying over him, and she is absolutely distraught over his injury. Iago does his best to twist her worry over Cassio into guilt.
Gratiano and Lodivico are high ranking officials, and have been conditioned not to run to an unknown person's aid. In this instance, it is Cassio and Roderigo who are injured, and give no threat to the two officials, but it could be part of a ploy to assassinate the two high ranking men. As they are unsure, they stay back to stay safe.
Iago uses the fact that Bianca is a prostitute and should have no ties to anyone to his advantage. She shouldn't love Cassio enough to be crying over him, and she is absolutely distraught over his injury. Iago does his best to twist her worry over Cassio into guilt.
Promethean Flame extinguished.
He talks about how he does not know how to relight the 'promethean flame' which is life, and hot he candle, which he puts out can be rekindled, but Desdemona not. It is ironic because he will soon repent his actions and wish her back.
Desdemona claims with her last breath that Othello is not to blame. She still thinks the world of him, and wishes only for his happiness, even as she dies. Othello only incriminates himself. He could have claimed to have entered and found her dead, particularly as he was himself distraught over her death.
The Turks are sunk by the storm, Brabantio dies of a broken heart and humiliation that his daughter left him for the moor, Roderigo is stabbed by Cassio, and then finished off by Iago, Desdemona is suffocated by Othello, Emilia is stabbed by Iago in his rush to escape, Othello kills himself, and Iago might be slowly dying from his wound.
Othello's world no longer means anything, and he finds death a more suitable option than living, personally. When he wounds Iago, he is hoping to either let Iago live and be tortured and punished, or that Iago will die a slow death. Othello claims that dying would be the better sounding thing for himself before he kills himself because he knows he cannot live with the shame of what he has done and without Desdemona.
Othello claims his tragic flaw is 'loving too much'. This is almost true. Anyone can be manipulated, and he was not jealous without reason, if fictional reason. His tragic flaw is loving too much, as he says. He loved Desdemona so much, his love so intense that it turned him into a jealous monster when he thought his love was being shared by another.
The universal truth of Othello? Always seek out evidence for yourself, and be skeptical. It is okay to trust, but if something sounds odd, or it is entirely new information you never had an inkling about before, then seek out evidence yourself. Do not buy into heresy, and find the truth yourself.
Desdemona claims with her last breath that Othello is not to blame. She still thinks the world of him, and wishes only for his happiness, even as she dies. Othello only incriminates himself. He could have claimed to have entered and found her dead, particularly as he was himself distraught over her death.
The Turks are sunk by the storm, Brabantio dies of a broken heart and humiliation that his daughter left him for the moor, Roderigo is stabbed by Cassio, and then finished off by Iago, Desdemona is suffocated by Othello, Emilia is stabbed by Iago in his rush to escape, Othello kills himself, and Iago might be slowly dying from his wound.
Othello's world no longer means anything, and he finds death a more suitable option than living, personally. When he wounds Iago, he is hoping to either let Iago live and be tortured and punished, or that Iago will die a slow death. Othello claims that dying would be the better sounding thing for himself before he kills himself because he knows he cannot live with the shame of what he has done and without Desdemona.
Othello claims his tragic flaw is 'loving too much'. This is almost true. Anyone can be manipulated, and he was not jealous without reason, if fictional reason. His tragic flaw is loving too much, as he says. He loved Desdemona so much, his love so intense that it turned him into a jealous monster when he thought his love was being shared by another.
The universal truth of Othello? Always seek out evidence for yourself, and be skeptical. It is okay to trust, but if something sounds odd, or it is entirely new information you never had an inkling about before, then seek out evidence yourself. Do not buy into heresy, and find the truth yourself.