OTHELLO

Shakespeare in the first part of the first scene of Othello wants to attract the reader’s attention. He  didn’t reveal who is the main character of the play in the early stages of the scene. At the beginning only Iago and Roderigo spoke but they didn’t tell the reader who they were speaking about. Only later the reader understands that Iago and Roderigo were speaking of Othello. Iago speaks in an abstract way of Othello: he says that he love “his own pride and purposes”. Afterwards Shakespeare reveals who they reffered to and to do this he uses an irony because he writes “Whether I in any just term am affin’d to love the Moor”. Indeed Iago wasn’t exhausted to be at the service of the Moor.

Shakespeare in the third scene of the first act, to explain the plan of Iago, uses concise sentences and verbs in the imperative form. This mode gives a kind of austerity and strength to Iago who takes the appearance of a strong, decided and wicked character.