Iago Hates Othello So Much? Thesis

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" (2.1). He looks for the worst in people and always finds it.

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What is it about Othello that makes him an easy target? That is, he appears to be a tough soldier…so why, then, doesn't he just tell Iago to piss off, pardon the French, when Iago starts talking about Desdemona being unfaithful?

Othello is a black man in a racist society, who must constantly prove his worth, thus he has a strong but fragile sense of personal honor. As he is a career military man he has little experience with women as people, and is more apt to trust the word of a fellow soldier like Iago. He is also a cultural alien in Venetian society.
This makes him more likely to believe Iago's comments about Venetian women's untrustworthiness. He is older than Desdemona, and does not know her very well, perhaps less well than Iago. He has internalized many of the culture's stereotypes about blackness being inferior to whiteness. Desdemona comes from a better social background, which….....

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