Blog 20 Quote Response "Othello" Act 5: Scene 2

Othello: "Soft you; a word or two before you go. No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, when you shall, these unlucky deeds you relate, speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak of one who loved not unwisely, but tooo well; of one not easily jelous but of being wrought, perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand like the base Indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe; one of whosesubdued eyes albeit unused to the melting wood, drop tears as fast as the arabian trees, their medicinable gum. Set you down this; and say besides that in the Aleppo once, where a malignant and a turbaned Turk beat a Venition and tranduced state, I took by th' throat the cicumsised dog and smote him thus." Shakespeare (16o4) "Othello" Act V Scene II.
In this scene Shakespeare provides poetic justice to Lago who had thought his plot to insnare Othello would be completed by the ignorance of all. In this the moral of the play may be interperted as careful what you wish for. Lago got what he wanted in the end, but he got a lot more than he counted on. This monologue in the movie "O" captured brilliantly the frustration experianced by those who have been betrayed by those they trust. That Shakespeare allowed for justice in the end plays well for all who read this and can identify with the emotions of betrayal. The whole play is written in a stlye that allows for the emotonal engament of the reader to the character of Othello by outlining Lagos chracter at the begining of the play. We as readers know he is a scurvey dog, but we keep reading to see the level he will sink to before he gets his. Shakespeare reels the reader in and does not disaapoint in the end.