Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Othello - Is Iago justified in reporting Desdemona's marriage to Othello to her father?
Iago was not justified in reporting Desdemona's marriage to her father as he was doing it for himself and not for Brabantio. His actions would have been justified if he reported to Brabantio out of honesty and concern for his daughters false actions. However, this was not the case. Iago only wanted to cause trouble for Othello because he knew that Brabantio would not be pleased with the secret marriage. This was not because Othello was in a low class. On the contrary, he was in a very high rank in military. Brabantio did not approve of the marriage because Othello was black. If Iago truly wanted to inform Brabantio of the marriage he would not have used Roderigo to report this message and have told Brabantio so rudely in the middle of the night. Iago was not justified in his actions as he did so for selfish purposes.
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Briana, your line of argument is quite clear, although I would have liked a more definitive thesis statement. This could still have included the complexity you mention. You have essentially completed the task I was going to ask you to do this week, which was to write the second body paragraph and the conclusion. You do need to work on incorporating quotations more effectively, so I would suggest you try to re-work what you have written, looking at better use of quotations.
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