Summary of the drama othello by william shakespeare
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Othello the Moor, a noble black general in the Venetian army, has secretly married a beautiful white woman called Desdemona, the daughter of a prominent senator, Brabantio. When he finds out, he is outraged, and promptly disowns her.
Othello’s ensign, Iago, harbours a secret jealousy and resentment towards the Moor, partly because another soldier, lieutenant Cassio, has been promoted ahead of him, and also because he suspects that Othello has had an affair with his wife. Intent on revenge, Iago hatches a devious plan to plant suspicions in Othello’s mind that Desdemona has been unfaithful to him with Cassio. He orchestrates a street fight, for which Cassio is wrongly blamed, and is then dismissed from his post by Othello. Desdemona takes up Cassio’s case with her husband, which only further inflames his suspicions that the pair are lovers.
In the meantime, Iago manages to procure a treasured handkerchief from Desdemona that was given to her by Othello. He plants it on Cassio so that Othello sees it, then concludes that it is proof of their affair. Maddened by jealousy, he orders Iago to murder Cassio, and then he strangles Desdemona. Immediately afterwards her innocence is revealed, and Iago’s treachery exposed. In a fit of grief and remorse Othello kills himself. Iago is taken into custody by the Venetian authorities.
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Othello was a newly married moor general who suspects his wife Desdemona of having an affair with Cassio, a friend of hers and commander in chief of Otthello. This is because he believed in Iago, an evil officer whom everyone thinks is honest. Iago is jealous of Othello and Cassio and plans to kill them along with Desdemona. He gets Cassio fired by his clever tricks when Otthello sees that he is completely drunk during his job. Cassio and Desdemona also falls into the trap when Iago advised Cassio to request to Desdemona to ask Otthello to forgive him as he really regrets. But, Otthello and Iago sees them and Cassio runs away in shame as he was feeling guilty, making Othello suspicious and Iago was there to sow the seeds of jealousy in the mind of Otthello. This eventually leads to the murder of Cassio by Iago, Desdemona by Otthello, Emilia(Iago's good wife and Desdemona's companion) by Iago after she reveals the true intentions of her husband and Otthello kills himself. Iago is put to death as punishment.