Othello by William Shakespeare is a tragedy that constructs the plays antagonist Iago, as a two-sided character. Throughout Act I in the play, Iago shows his intricate character, who has been presented as anti-Semite(a), manipulative villain, two-faced and jealous. In Act I, Iago complains he hates Othello, as he was non appointed as an officeh seniorer by him. He plans to cheat Roderigo taking his money and allure Othello, Cassio has slept with Desdemona to bring Othello to destruction. Iago serves a purpose to the play and has been constructed in this path to establish the plot and characters. The audience at this point net profit their opinion of characters and clearly know who to sympathise.
Iago is introduced as a racist man from the very beginning of the play. Iago refers to Othello with epithets to suggest Othello as a lust driven animal that is violating the innocent Desdemona. For instance, he calls Othello, an old black ram who is tupping over Brabantios white ewe (Act I, Scene I, 89-90). He is referring to the point that Othello is a dark skinned man. Iago then associates Othellos colour with the examine of the devil (Act1, Scene1, 92) suggesting to Brabantio that he has lost half soul now that Desdemona is married to Othello.
This epithets give the audience invalidating images of Othello and allows them to place prejudicial views. The repetition of the word Moor by Iago abusively implies that Othello is worse than white people and because of his race he should not hold the position he does in the army. Othellos race is back up by an animal imagery Barbary horse, (Act1, Scene1, 111) portraying a beasty animal-like image and that this quality will arise throughout the family if Desdemona married a moor. The contrast between black and white is...
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