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Analyse the dramatic effect of the devices Iago uses in Act III Scene 3 to convince Othello of his wife’s infidelity. Who is to blame for the tragedy?
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Amy Grammer Analyse the dramatic effect of the devices Iago uses in Act III Scene 3 to convince Othello of his wife's infidelity. Who is to blame for the tragedy? Shakespeare's tragedies of this kind are all based around the idea of the downfall of a hero whom the audience has had a chance to relate to. Othello is indeed heroic at the beginning of this play but would have been different in a major way from the ill-fated Hamlet or Macbeth to the Elizabethan audience. He was black. His was a race that was generally portrayed as inferior or evil in Elizabethan theatre and yet here was a Moor playing the hero, a well educated, dignified hero at that. But can a black man, however comfortably he seems to fit into society ever truly feel secure in a world dominated by white people? Will he always feel like an outsider?...
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