Desda"moan"a

It's funny when you look at her name and all you can think about is how unfaithful she must be to her husband. But it's really the opposite. Othello is the unfaithful one. Throughout the play, "poor" Desdemona had to endure the pain and worry of her husband's judgment upon her. Now desiccated, I am at my wit's end with Desdemona. I almost wish that she was the panache that everyone thought she was going to be. An arrogant, sassy wife to the leader of the Venetian army would have been much more entertaining than the lugubrious damsel in distress that was Desdemona. Her aloofness was a pique to me. I wanted her to have some confidence or awareness to her power. All she did was "moan" about her worries. Stick up for yourself Desdemona! Well, you're dead now... but you should have from the beginning. Her soporific quandaries were of no interest to me. I wanted to rip my hair out when I heard her drag on about anything else, that's how enervated I was from her character. Something was just a little eschew about her. She was either confused or out of the loop on something. How can someone with such high status for a woman be so dumb?! Sorry Desdemona but you are. Your situation was tacit. Othello had or is in the litany of woman's dreams of his exotic desires. You should have dealt with it before you let his jealous mind get you first. Oh well. I'll leave you alone in your solemn death then. Goodbye (thank gosh).

Cassio -- without the C

I think that many of us want to think that Cassio is some innocent pawn in Iago's game, but then we would be lying to ourselves. Come on Cassio, get some brains. You are next in command under Othello! Nepotism may have gotten you the position, but now you need reach out of this "too good for everybody else" milieu that you live in. Hold your liquor, or don't drink at all. You can't get by on looks all the time (which may not be working for you based on what I saw in the movie version). Your jejune behavior only further infuriates me; just because you are rich and "pretty" doesn't mean you can prance around the town drunk. You are so bereft of physical duties that now you think you can just get by on life with your charm. Try being a little less careless and little more fastidious. Look what has happened! At least try to recoup before you humiliate yourself! You made a drunken fool of yourself and now you lost your job... Even though you do have connections with important people you are only a sinecure; you do nothing and make money. It's wrong. Although Iago's rage is intense, your attitude and status is unwarranted and I don't think that you should even be the leader of the Venetian army in Othello's place. It may be expedient for you to lay around and do nothing, but you are going to have to step up to the plate. Right now you don't have the power to subjugate a mere dog into doing what you want it to do, let alone an entire army of men. Watching you reconnoiter would be an embarrassment to the ferocity of the Venetian army and I cannot stand for your power any longer. If I could I would banish you myself. Good riddance.

Iago has some issues.

I'm not entirely sure as to whether pernicious little Iago is a lucky neophyte in his plans to destroy everyone in his way, or if he actually crafted and demised this plan to get back at Othello for giving Cassio a promotion over him. Needless to say, this dissident definitely has some personal problems to overcome. I'm not sure that I could have such a strong vendetta against someone over something as menial as that promotion. Let me see if I can re-piece the sequence of events that were Iago's plans. SO. Roderigo was in love with Desdemona, but Desdemona married Othello. Iago was angry at Othello because he gave a promotion to Cassio over him. Iago tells Roderigo that if Roderigo pays Iago, he will make it so that Roderigo will get Desdemona, which in turn will cause Othello to crumble. I'm not sure why Roderigo would agree to this subornation, but that's a different story. Despite Roderigo's attempts to sway Desdemona, he couldn't make it fly. But he was resilient. Iago then told Roderigo to start a fight with Cassio, because apparently Cassio was another contender for Desdemona, which resulted in Roderigo's death. With him gone, Iago played on Othello's jealousy to get him to think that Cassio and Desdemona were sleeping together. Iago had Desdemona's sacred handkerchief put into Cassio's hands. Then after Othello had a seizure, he was then transfixed over a conversation he heard which made him ignorantly positive that Cassio and Desdemona were in fact sleeping together. He then took matters into his own hand and killed Desdemona, which Iago's wife Emelia discovered ostensibly (whether she knew before or not the world will never know) and unfolded the truth that she was never cheating on Othello. She then realized that it must have been Iago the whole time and confronted him. Iago stabs Emelia, Othello stabs Iago, and Othello kills himself. Iago's jealousy turned out to be the foible that would prevent him from ever being Othello's successor. Poor Iago, although his plan was one large éclat.