Iago's Representation Of Love In Othello

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Iago’s first remark to Brabantio regarding Desdemona’s whereabouts states “...Even now, now, very now, an old black ram/ Is tupping your white ewe” (I. i.13). The animal imagery lago evokes serves several purposes. First, it reveals lago’s perception of love as an animal sexual act, a picture extremely inappropriate to present to a father with respect to his daughter. Next, it degrades the love between Othello and Desdemona. At the end of Scene 3, Iago expresses his attitude toward love when Roderigo hints at drowning himself because he cannot live without Desdemona. For Iago, a man’s reason controls the baser instincts of which love is “merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.” Iago cannot comprehend love in terms of its virtue

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