Frankenstein: Tradegy

"Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung; in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick." pg. 129

This novel is so much of a tragedy that Shakespeare could have written it! I think that this scene is the saddest in the whole novel. The monster spends months helping the De Lacey family, watching them, learning from them and loving them and the moment he tries to make contact, they reject him like every other person has. The poor monster has never had the human contact he craved and that has to be the most tragic of all. The novel doesn't stop there though. Of course the monster has to kill a little boy and frame a young woman out of fury and of course he has to kill Henry, Elizabeth, and the father. The tragic moments keep piling up until then end when Frankenstein dies and the monster stands over him and asks the body for forgiveness. The definition of a tragedy is when the heroic character dies, but in this novel, not only does the heroic character die, but almost everyone else does too. It is a depressing novel, but it also clearly show some truths about the human race.

Frankenstein: Simile

"Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me." pg. 124

Throughout this novel, the monster is compared to Satan. Like Satan, he was created by his creator (duh!), and he fell from his grace. Satan fell because he tried to be like God, but the monster was not alive to even feel the good of Frankenstein. Frankenstein like the monster until be breathed and then he immediately hated him. However, since God is all powerful and good, he would have never hated his creation just because he lived, so that is a bothersome inconsistency. Anyway, moving on, the simile of the monster to Satan is carried out throughout this novel. It is a good comparison because it demonstrates how much the monster was abhorred. Satan was cast out of heaven to hell and the monster lived in his "hell" on earth for his whole life. Since the moment that he was cast out by Victor, he did not have a moment of rest until he died at the end.

Frankenstein: Dynamic Characters

"That is also my victim. Oh, Frankenstein! Generous and self-devoted being! What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me?" pg. 207

The creation has to be one of the most dynamic characters that I have read about and I think that it has to do with the fact that the reader follows him from birth to death. We first see him as a helpless "newborn" who doesn't understand anything and who has a good heart, but is rejected. He then moves to learning and growing, but he still has a very pure heart because he had not had it broken irreparably yet. Then he changes when he is rejected by the De Lacey family and still more when Frankenstein refuses to create a wife for him. Then, finally at the end, he comes around full circle and repents for the pain he has caused and asks a dead Frankenstein for forgiveness. I cannot help but feel sorry for him, even when he murders multiple innocent people, because it was never in his nature to do so. I don't think that the monster, if cared for once in his life, would have caused the pain that he did and I saw that when he is upset over his creator's death. It is really sad actually, that someone who has gone through as much as the monster had, could still feel some affection toward the man who created him and caused his pain to a point.

Frankenstein: Double Standards

"Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me? " pg. 210

This passage really hit me because of the truth that it tells about human nature. There are so many double standards in life, but the moment that an outsider makes a mistake or causes a problem, the whole world is against him. This passage also reminds me of a scene in The Kite Runner where Amir's wife is upset because people won't forget the mistake she made as a teenager when she ran away with a boy. She says that if men make mistakes or make their girlfriends pregnant, then they are just being young men, but the moment a woman makes a mistake, she is shunned. Now, Soraya didn't make a mistake and kill a little boy like the creation did, but she made an egregious error according the community and she was shunned for it. The creation did kill the boy and I am having a hard time actually deciding whether he wanted to or whether it was a mistake, but the truth still holds the same. Frankenstein could not forgive or even bear to look at the monster, but he didn't stand up to save Justine which is on his hands. So, all the monster wanted was to be accepted and now he is seen as the most abhorred of criminals while others as pardoned.

Frankenstein: A Role Reversal

"Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proven yourself unworthy of my condescension. Remember that I have power..." pg. 160

This passage interested me because it shows a trade of roles between Frankenstein and his creation. Before, the reader has seen Frankenstein in the role of power since he is the one who created life, but now the roles are reversed. The creation has been through so much in his short life that he is no longer the helpless creature that reached out to his creator. Instead, the creation is calling his creator a slave and lets him know how much power he actually possesses. I think that the creation was not born inherently evil, as we saw by his first moment of life, but I think that humans made him the way he is now. Whether it is him consistently being repudiated or whether the revenge comes from reading about humans in the books he picked up, the creation is very much in a place of power right now with Frankenstein. Victor has been through a lot in the years that he created the monster, but he has had moments of happiness. The creation was only ever happy watching the De Lacey family and that ended in ruins. I think the reason that the monster holds so much power is that he is obviously more superior in frame because that is how Frankenstein made him. Also, even more than physical superiority, I believe the monster is in a state of power because he has nothing in this world to lose, and Victor has everything to lose.

Frankenstein: Sister, Cousin, Fiance?

"My children, my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union." So, the relationship between Victor Frankenstein and Elizabeth really bothers me. It might be just the time period and the style of writing, but I find the whole relationship really weird. First, the mother adopts a little girl, but teaches her son to call her cousin. Also, from the first moment she adopts her, she had the intentions of an "arranged marriage" between the two. The children grow up together as friends and playmates, but always with that undertone that there was always meant to be something more. As Victor grows older and goes to university, he still has that relationship with Elizabeth. The conversations and letters between the two have an intimate nature, but the letters and conversations between other characters also have that undertone, so the whole thing confuses me. I wonder what will happen between Victor and Elizabeth because we already know that Victor almost died chasing Jim (the monster- I named him) in the Arctic Circle and that he and Elizabeth were mourning the loss of William, but we do not know what happened in between.

Frankenstein: No Name?!

"Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art!" pg. 95 I can't help but feel really sorry for the monster in this novel. Not only has he been rejected by every human he has met and has had to learn everything for himself, but he also has no name. A name is a person's identity and without one, the monster is just that... a monster. I think I am going to name him Jim because he really needs a name. Moving on, in the first twelve chapters of this novel, Frankenstein never called him a name. I think this led to the unidentifiable nature of the "monster." Frankenstein never thought to talk to him or even stay long enough to get a good look at him, so how could he even name him? Frankenstein doesn't seem to care much about the humanity of the monster and he never gives him a chance. It makes me wonder what caused Mary Shelley to create the monster and Frankenstein in this way. The introduction said it is a ghost story, which I understood to be a scary story, but this one is just sad because it says something about humans and those who are different.

Frankenstein: Theme

"Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room..." pg. 56 I think a major theme of this novel is creation and then alienation. On page 56, Frankenstein creates the monster who is supposed to be beautiful and wonderful, and then he rejects him. Frankenstein cannot stand the sight of his own creation who he labored over for two years, and runs away. This causes the monster to be alienated and left alone in the world. As the novel progresses, the monster narrates his life so far and the reader feels the alienation the monster felt by Frankenstein and everyone he comes into contact with. He is first left alone to fend for himself in the forest without knowing how to build a fire or keep warm and when he first encounters another human, the old man shrieks and runs away. The monster did not understand why until he entered a small village and the people either fled or attacked him. Throughout this story, the monster did not feel welcome once so far. I think that this theme shows what alienation can do to inherently good people and the effect it can have on a person.

Frankenstein: Motivation

"My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement." pg. 53 Frankenstein's motivation in this story is to become a master of science and to understand everything. He wants to discover and invent so much that he actually makes himself sick and does not seem to care. I think this motivation or obsession really, propels the book along. From the very beginning the author experiences motivation from Walton and then an extreme kind from Frankenstein. I think that the author intended for the readers to understand what motivation can do to a person and what motivation without morality or constraints can cause. In the novel, Frankenstein's motivation to create life from an inanimate object creates multiple moral and albeit scientific inquiries from the reader. However, if the motivation was substandard or not as expressed as it is, I think the whole meaning of the novel would be thrown off. Motivation or obsession, in Frankenstein's case, without moderation can cause serious problems and motivation without morality can cause an effect that might be amazing and groundbreaking, but might be the demise of a race.

Frankenstein: Foils

"Meanwhile Clerval occupied himself, so to speak, with the moral relations of things. His hope and his dream was to become one among whose names are recorded in story as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species." pg. 37 I think that Henry Clerval and Victor Frankenstein are foils in many regards. They both have a desire to learn, but in very different ways. Victor wants to become the master of science and has no use for morals, which Clerval focuses on. Also, Victor has an obsession with knowing and learning science that ultimately leads to physical illness. Clerval, on the other hand, is motivated to become one of the moral benefactors of the human race, but when his father does not allow him to go to university he does not become ill. Also, I wonder if it was Clerval who was desiring to make the monster, whether he would ponder the morality of his actions. Also, if Frankenstein was a little more like Clerval and instead of thinking "Can I do this?," he thinks "Should I do this?" I think that because he is a foil to Clerval and because he is so driven by discovery that the thought never crossed his mind and would have never crossed his mind. The foils bring out the characteristics of Frankenstein and show his progression as the story moves on.

Like Father, Like Son

"The slingshot made a thwiiiit sound when Sohrab released the cup. Then Assef was screaming." pg. 291 This quote describes a situation where Amir is being mutilated by Assef and Sohrab, a little abused boy, step in to save his life. This situation is almost exactly the same as when Hassan stepped in to save Amir and himself from Assef twenty years earlier. A change, however, was that this time Amir fought and didn't leave it all to Hassan or in this case Sohrab. I think it shows a lot about Hassan when his little boy steps in to save a man he never knew. It also shows a lot about Sohrab and his little fighting spirit. I think it is interesting the line of father-son traits that are in this book. Firstly, Baba finds himself more in Hassan and Sohrab is definitely Hassan's child. I think that these lines are very important to the novel as a whole and that the situation with Assef was almost identical and the Hassan and Sohrab acted the same way showed a lot about their character and their upbringing, as well as the familial ties.

Always Thinking of You

"Hassan had so many questions about you." pg. 207 I think that this quote and the letters that came after it really shows the bond between Amir and Hassan. Even though Amir made a terrible mistake and let Hassan down in the worst possible way, they never stopped thinking about each other. Did they marry? Did they have kids? Were they happy? These were things that seeped into Amir's thoughts everyday and every special occasion that he attended, but always with grief and regret. We don't know what Hassan thought when he thought about these things except for what he said in his letters, but I think that he never stopped loving Amir or wanting the best for him. The bond that lasted years and generations was strong and had been tested in the most terrible and life-altering ways, but they never forgot. Eventually, I think Hassan forgave Amir and Amir was able to move on and realize the bond they has without grief and anger and with more love and respect.

Vernacular: Farsi Language

"By then, Khala Jamila's initially subtle hints had become overt, as in 'Kho dega! So! When am I going to sing alahoo for my little nawasa?' " I was interested by the insertions of the Farsi language into this novel while the rest of the book is written in English. I think that these words show how important country, family, and tradition is to the Afghan people. The words that are in the vernacular are usually very important to the novel as a whole, but also to the Afghan people. Nawasa refers to the grandchildren that Jamila is asking about and alahoo is songs that she had been forbidden to sing by her husband except to her grandchildren. Also, the title Khala is always added before he name, so familial titles, not just Aunt, Uncle, Grandma, or Grandpa is English were sufficient in these cases, the author had to show how the Afgahns think and what they respect and believe. Earlier in the novel, the author also uses naang and namoos, his honor, because that is what an Afghan person is defined by and honor does not cut it. It had to be in the vernacular because it is so ingrained in these people that it is Afghan itself almost. The vernacular makes the reader think about what those words are and what they mean because they are changed from English to Farsi for a reason.

Foils: Soraya and Amir

"Then I did something I hadn't done in fifteen years of marriage: I told my wife everything." pg. 325 I have always thought of foil characters as one good and one bad, or the hero and the goofy sidekick, but I think in this case Soraya and Amir are foils to each other in at least one area. They are foil characters because to a similar situation, they each responded in a way totally different. Earlier in the novel when Amir asked for her hand in marriage from her father, Soraya had the honor, guts, and courage to do the right thing and tell Amir her story. Even though she had run away, been with a guy, and was shunned by most of the Afghan community, she knew that the honorable thing to do was to tell Amir of what she did before they got married. She knew that he could shun her like the other men, but she still told him. However, Amir did not tell Soraya his story until fifteen years later after he was bashed by Assef and told Hassan's story. Instead of telling Soraya what he did and his past failures when she told him, he opted out and let Soraya take the whole weight upon her shoulders. He did not have the courage to tell her and did not have the courage to let her judge him as a suitable husband as he had judged her. He did redeem himself when he told her the whole story, so it took courage to tell her after fifteen years and to also take on the extra burden of her realizing he had kept things.

Symbol: The Kite

" 'Do you want me to run that kite for you?' His Adam's apple rose and fell as he swallowed. The wind lifted his hair. I thought I saw him nod. 'For you, a thousand times over.' " pg. 371 I think that the kite is a symbol for redemption. Throughout the story the kite shows up, especially in connection with Hassan and the past. It also shows up in connection with Amir and Baba frequently. It is a symbol for redemption firstly because it was the one thing that Amir and Baba had in common and the one thing that Baba could be proud of his son for. Amir wanted that kite so badly because he felt like it was the only way he could redeem himself in his father's eyes, however, that drive led to a different need for redemption. Secondly, it is a symbol for redemption in the last few pages of the novel too where Amir needs to make amends with Sohrab and in doing so redeems himself for what he did to Hassan as kids. The last kite and the flying experience with Sohrab started to heal the void in between them. I saw the redemption come from the quote and it showed that Amir had done for Sohrab what Hassan never stopped doing for him.

Amir's Tests- The Kite Runner

"But I was a man, and all I had risked was a bruised ego. Bruises healed. Reputations did not. Would she take my dare?" (pg. 147)
I found this quote interesting because it almost seems like Amir is doing the same thing to Soraya that he did to Hassan when they were kids. He never took the real risk in anything; he let others do it for him. In this quote, he was only risking his ego as a man because men had a lot more freedom when it came to morality. Soraya, however, had to deal with the double standards of women and her reputations would never heal. Without a good reputation, Soraya didn't have a chance at a good life. So instead of keeping her from a situation where she could have problems, he let her potentially take the fall because he wanted to know her better. Similarly, Amir "tested" Hassan in his childhood on page 54 when Hassan said that he would eat dirt for him and Amir said "you would do that?" This interaction was a test because Amir truly knew that Hassan would eat dirt for him, but I don't think Hassan or even Amir knew if hew would actually ask Hassan to. These tests show that Amir has had two good friends and he always tests them.

Flashbacks- The Kite Runner

Page 76 describes a memory of Amir's that is of great importance. Flashbacks or memories are important in stories like The Kite Runner. The memories hold the story in in this novel because the adult Amir telling the story has been keeping them back for so long that memories are only left. This memory is of a sheep sacrifice that Amir's family participated in. He remembers the look of complete acceptance on the sheep's face, the look of a higher purpose. This flashback was important because it was brought on by the look on Hassan's face. Amir drew a parallel between Hassan and the sheep and the things that were happening to them. This is important because it was a sacrifice for the sheep, but Hassan was not being sacrificed, but he was sacrificing himself for Amir. He didn't want to give up the kite, the key to Baba's love for Amir, so he let himself be hurt for Amir. Everything in this book leads to the sacrifices that Hassan made for Amir and the fact that Amir never did the same for Hassan. He ran instead of helping Hassan. The flashbacks are only one technique that the author uses to portray this theme.

The Author Likes to FORESHADOW- The Kite Runner

"Rahim Khan had been wrong about the mean streak thing," (pg. 23- end of Ch. 3)

"Because suddenly Afghanistan changed forever," (pg. 34- end of Ch. 4)

"Because that was the winter that Hassan stopped smiling," (pg. 47- end of Ch. 5)

I got tired of flipping to the end of the rest of the chapters, but the author, Khaled Hosseini, has a tendency to end his chapters with a foreshadowing sentence that is dramatic. The affect of these endings make the readers wonder and think and want to read more. However, I think that the real reason for these endings is that it makes the reader think. When I read this book, I tried to tie it into history or find connections and through these I started to understand the meaning of the whole work. I feel that life full of foreshadowing. He also foreshadows in a memory sequence on pgs. 73-74. The author tells of a memory that showed Hassan and Amir getting their fortunes told. Hassan went first and the teller actually gave him back his money which only happens when futures are bad. Amir was going to go, but he was scared, so he let Hassan face the bad future by himself. This foreshadows a potential bad future for Hassan. The foreshadowing is important because I think this is where I started to think that Hassan and Amir were not going to live happily ever after.

A World of Conflict: The Kite Runner

There are many types of conflict in this novel, so much, that I think that conflict is a theme. Amir is battling with the internal conflict raging in his head and the poor kid is dealing with external conflict as well. However, the conflict doesn't stop with Amir and himself and others, it goes on to include the Shi'a Muslims and Sunni Muslims, the Hazarras and the Pashtuns. The internal conflict is Amir battling with his feelings about his father. He desperately wants his father's love and respect and is jealous of Hassan, his servant-friend, when Hassan seems to be getting more attention. He struggles with the love for his father and the love of his friend, but over and over Hassan gets hurt because Amir chooses his father who never seems to care much. On page 13, Baba asks Amir if Hassan wanted to go on a trip with them, but "I lied and told him Hassan had the runs. I wanted Baba all to myself." Because Amir never got the attention he needed from his father, he was stuck in the middle of an internal battle. The external conflict also has to deal with Amir and Baba, but not Hassan. Amir wants the approval of his father more than anything in the world, but their personalities stand in the way. Baba was a sports star, who is strong and brave and believes his son should be like him. However, Amir inherited his mother's qualities and would rather read. This difference always led to the conflict between them because they could not enter into a happy medium. "I started spending my allowance on books. That was how I escaped my father's aloofness," (pg. 19). "Baba sensed my lack of genuine interest[in soccer] and resigned himself to the bleak fact that his son was never going to either play or watch soccer,"(20). Finally, there was the external conflict between the two muslim groups. The Pashtuns were the wealthy and the influential while the Hazarra's were the servants and the illiterate and there was no evidence that this would ever budge.

"For you, a thousand times over" The Kite Runner

"For you, a thousand times over." pg. 2 This quote is very important to the meaning of the book and the relationship between Hassan and Amir. It is first seen on page 2 of the novel, but is repeated throughout the entire book. The readers do not understand the meaning of the quote on page 2 as they will later on, but the significance of it is already noticed. I think that it is the epitome of loyalty and friendship and is a quote from Hassan that haunted Amir from the moment he said it all into his adult life. I see it as a surrender almost, a surrender where Hassan tells Amir that even though they are different types of Muslims, not family, and classes apart, he will always be there for him. Amir does not show this type of sacrifice towards Hassan at all. He lets Hassan take the blame for his mischievousness, lets Hassan stand up to the bullies that Amir would be far more equiped to handle due to his status, and never shows Hassan the love and friendship that Hassan showed him from birth... Hassan's first word was Amir while Amir's was Baba. "For you, a thousand times over" is a gift, a promise, and one that I think Hassan will never break and one that Amir has never appreciated. It alsmost has this haunted ring to it and I wonder how Amir will learn of the true power of this phase or if he ever will.

Oh Laura

I think that Laura's disability in the play is more her shy personality, rather than the brace she has to wear on her leg. She was able to walk around for hours when she was supposed to be in school, so I think that the disability is a front for her shyness and inability to meet people. However, her mother would rather pass her off as being a cripple, rather than actually being afraid of people. I think it is also possible that Laura is afraid of people and what they think because so much emphasis was made on her condition by her mother that she became too self-conscious about it. Therefore, not only is Laura a shy person, but she is a shy person with a defining disability that is pronounced by her mother at home. Poor Laura! She has always been told that her disability was something to hide and not discuss that of course she was going to be shy about it. I think that Amanda is what caused the problems for her children. She wanted to protect them so much that she actually drove them away and farther into themselves. Tom left home just like his father and Laura retreated into her shy self because it is what she thought she had to do since she was crippled.

The Glass Menagerie #6

The physical effects of the play, namely the lighting, screen, and music, help to show that this play is a memory play. One time in the play when the father was mentioned his picture lighted up and it showed that while he is not present in their daily lives, he is still a big part of the family. He is absent, but Amanda thinks about him often and is adamant that her son will not turn out like his father, even though she drives him off. Another thing is the see-through screen. This helps create a fourth wall so it is more realistic, but also enforces the dream-like nature of the play. It creates a boundary between Tom the narrator and Tom the character. Finally, the music is important because it signals when something important is happening and when the menagerie is referenced. Laura is compared to the figurines because they are delicate and beautiful, but can be broken easily, like her. The events that are characterized especially by the music and lighting are the ones that contain reasons for Tom's departure and show the themes of the play.

The Glass Menagerie #1

The play employs realistic and nonrealistic conversations. The conversations between the characters are realistic because there are conversations that show Amanda's overbearing nature and Tom's distractedness. It can also be nonrealistic because the play is a memory play, so everything is Tom's memories. Because it is Tom's memory, the conversations can be skewed towards him. There are breaks from conversation a lot in the play because it always seems that Amanda is admonishing one of her children. After, they escape; Tom goes out the fire escape to the movies and Laura retreats inside herself. I think that they are natural because most people will not stay long enough for people to keep scolding them. Also, I think that Amanda's personality is unrealistic because she is very motherly, but she also calls Laura a cripple in a fit of anger, so she doesn't really have respect for her.

Roderigo and Emilia

This is going to sound like a strange thing to write a whole blog about, but I am really glad Roderigo finally grew up in the end. He had annoyed me the whole play, always saying: "I want Desdemona but I don't have her" and "All my money's gone!" The truth is that I probably wouldn't have minded as much if he died then say, EMILIA(I mean, what the heck?). However, he finally wised up and realized what a manipulator Iago was and then he dies. I was really sad. I also didn't like that Emilia died. I though she was a very sympathetic character who was loyal, a little dense, but loved Desdemona. That she had to deal with Iago made everything worse in my mind and I think she never truly got an opportunity at anything. It made me really angry that Iago killed her even though he knew it was all over. It showed how evil and callous he is, to kill his own wife even though it is all over.

#7 Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime

I don't think the audience ever know for sure how much time passed throughout this play, but I would personally suggest that it occurred over 7-10 days. Shakespeare needed a length of time that would not appear to long and cumbersome to his audience and one that was long enough to encompass all of the action he wanted in the play. Othello needed enough time to get to Cyprus and Iago needed time to plan and scheme, although, personally, I believe it came very easily to him. The would come the manipulation and the paranoia which is characteristic of any good Shakespearean tragedy (oh joy). The element of time primarily gives the audience a timeline to follow. However, it also gives them the ability to get excited, scared, worried, and frustrated. Although the play would be relatively short, the audience would have experienced a wide array of emotions by the end. Also, I think the time of the play allowed the audience to become attached to the "good" characters. I think that if everything had happened to fast, then nobody would understand Othello. Also, it allowed the audience to see the true characteristics of the characters.

#2 Oh the Horror!

This play is a tragedy because the hero has a tragic flaw that leads him to dis demise. Othello's tragic flaw is his gullible nature and too-trusting nature. Othello was led astray by Iago's stories and manipulations which ultimately caused all the death in the play. He let himself believe that the love of his life, Desdemona, was cheating on him. I think the action of the play is extremely important to determine the classification of the play because there are so many aspects to Othello. The tragedy comes from the fact that Iago has been manipulating the majority of the characters throughout the entire play. Without this action, the play would not make sense and would not be a tragedy. Finally, the action mostly occurred in the last act and I think that was because it was the end result of the manipulation throughout the fist four acts.

Othello #4 Suspense

Suspense is created in the play by Iago because he is very open with the audience about his plan and his thoughts. The audience has the advantage of knowing his inner thoughts and plans, as well as the interactions among characters and Iago's predictions of the actions of other characters. In this case the audience know everything because they are not interacting with the characters, rather, they are just watching. The suspense is mostly derived from whether or not Iago's plan will work out and whether his predictions of the character's reaction will play out to be true. The audience has the most information as the play proceeds we hear Iago's thoughts, we see the private interactions, and we see the action unfold. Iago is the second most informed because he is the character running the show with the other characters as his puppets in his game. I think the next most informed would probably be Roderigo because even though he is duped by Iago the whole play, Iago needs to use somebody and he needs to trust somebody with at least some of his plan. I think the least informed character is the title character, Othello, because everything is happening because of him and he is the one who was supposed to come out hurt in the end.

Othello #5 Themes

I think the themes of Othello are jealousy, revenge, and racism. Each of theses themes play a huge role in furthering the plot and adding to the dramatic experience. The villain, Iago, is portrayed as a brilliant, but horrible and devious man who runs the whole show in my opinion. He is plagued by all of the themes, but especially revenge. The themes add to the dramatic experience by adding a reason for the chaos that occurs and leads the audience to the action. It increases the pleasure of the theatrical experience because it adds mystery and suspense to the story, as well as giving the audience a tragic hero to root for and a vengeful villain to despise. In human concerns, it is didactic because even though the villain "wins" since the hero dies, the play portrays the anguish and pain that revenge and jealousy can provide. Also, it is didactic in the racism theme because it shows how much an honorable man like Othello can be hated for his color and how much harm that prejudice can cause. Therefore, the play is didactic because it plays out the harmful circumstances that can arise from jealousy, revenge, and racism.

Iago Is an Eeeeeeevil Man

So, I have come to the conclusion that Iago has to be one of the most villainous characters that I have ever read about. He is a horrible person who justifies his actions by saying that because he is witty, it makes it all okay. From reading the play, I understand him to think that just because he is a "smart" person, it is okay to take advantage of those, according to him, to fall for his act. Also, I understand that Iago is angry because he was not promoted, and somebody with no experience was promoted ahead of him, but most people would get over it or discuss the act with their superiors. Iago, instead, decided to act on his anger and jealousy to dispose Cassio of his position and ruin his reputation. However, even further, Iago decided to drive it home by turning Othello against Cassio and his wife, Desdemona. Ultimately, Iago's plan ends in the death of Othello and Desdemona. Therefore, I think I have enough reason to conclude that Iago is an awful man who succumbed to the pressures of anger and jealousy, but did not stop until his lack of promotion was fully "avenged" in his mind with the death of Othello.