Sunday, January 10, 2010

Not Such A Fairytale Ending

Rodreigo sets himself up to fight Cassio; He stands waiting for him to come out from his night with Bianca and then he will strike.  Cassio comes out, and Roderigo stabs at him but fails to pierce through Cassio’s armor.  Cassio stabs and wounds Roderigo. Iago comes out, stabs Cassio in the achilles tendon, and runs away.  Cassio falls to the ground in pain screaming, Othello hears and figures he is dead so he goes to finish his business with Desdemona.  Othello walks down the hall and blows out all of the candles which signifies the ending of life. Then, he stands over Desdemona while she is sleeping and prepares to kill her.  He kisses her one last time but she wakes up and he tells her to prepare to die.  Desdemona asks her husband why he means to kill her, and Othello responds that she has been unfaithful to him with Cassio—he has seen the proof in the handkerchief.  Othello refuses to believe Desdemona’s denial of the charge, saying that Cassio has confessed but he is now dead.  Desdemona begins to weep for Cassio, which only drives Othello to become even more mad.  Wrestling with her as she begs to be allowed to live just a little longer, Othello finally succeeds in smothering his wife.  Othello is so upset when Emilia comes in and mentions the handkercheif as proof.  Iago walks in and hears Emilia saying that she stole the handkercheif and gave it to Iago and Iago probably planted it in Cassio's room.  Iago freaks out and stabs her in the stomach.  Emilia dies, then Othello freaks out on Iago and stabs him in the stomach but only wounds him.  Iago says, "I bleed sir, but not killed."  Cassio secretly slips Othello a dagger and Othello stabs himself and he dies.  Emilia is layed next to Desdemona and Othello lays next to the both of them.  Then Iago sits at the end of the bed with the three that are dead.  Later on letters written by Rodreigo are found, they are about all of the plans of Iago.  Desdemona and Othello's bodies were dropped into the bottom of the ocean

Maybe It Is True?

Iago and Othello are in a dungeon; Iago tells Othello that Cassio is coming and he should hide so he can hear what Cassio is saying about Desdemona.  So, Othello hides in a jail cell and listens in on the conversation between Cassio and Iago, but he can't really hear them so he just reads their lips.  First Iago says something about Bianca, a prostitute, because he knew that Cassio would talk about her in a non respective way.  Sure enough Cassio talked about her in a joking manner.  Othello thought Cassio was talking about Desdemona, the details of their affairs and even makes gestures in an attempt to depict her sexual advances.  After hearing about this Othello falls into a seizure.  After Othello snaps out of it he says that he will poison his wife, but Iago says, "strangle her in the bed that she contaminated through her infidelity."  Later on Lodovico came from Venice with a message from the duke.  He wants Othello and Desdemona to come back and Cassio to stay and rule Cyprus.  When they read the letter and Desdemona finds out they will be leaving she smiles and Othello slaps her across the face.  Othello goes back to his bedroom and treats desdemona and Emilia like they are whores.  Roderigo comes back furious that he hasn't won over Desdemona, and wants his jewels back that Iago was supposed to give to her but didn't.  He threatens to tell Othello Iago's whole plan.

Guess there's no going back now..

Emilia, Iago's wife, was begged by Iago to steal Desdemona's scarf.  She didn't know why he wanted it so bad, but she stole it anyway just to make her husband happy.  While she was stealing it she said this, "This was her first remembrance from the Moor, my wayward husband hath a hundred times wooed me to steal it, but she so loves the token. . ."  Iago continues to brainwash Othello by telling him a very peculiar story.  Iago claims that he slept over Cassio's house in his bed with him the other night and Cassio was having a dream about Desdemona.  Iago tells Othello that while Cassio and him were sharing a bed, Cassio called out Desdemona’s name in his sleep, wrung Iago’s hand, kissed him hard on the lips, and threw his leg over his’s thigh.  Then Iago tells Othello that he found the handkercheif in Cassio's room and Cassio wiped his beard with it.  Othello is so outraged that he makes a blood brother's swear with Iago.  They plan to kill Cassio in 3 days but Iago wants to make sure Desdemona lives.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Cassio Gets Demoted?

Othello and Cassio are sent off to a battle; after they finish their duties they are seperated and Cassio comes back first.  When Cassio comes back he attends a party where Iago trys to make him drink.  He was so drunk that he chased Rodreigo across the room and Montano getting in the way gets stabbed.  Iago orders Roderigo to leave and “cry a mutiny”  With that call Othello arrives and demands to meet with Cassio and Iago.  Othello demands to know what happened but, neither of the two would say anything.  Iago finally budges and tells Othello what happened.  Othello then takes Cassio's sash away and gives it to Iago.  Desdemona feels bad for Cassio and wants to help so she trys to tell Othello to forgive him.  Iago sets up his plan to make up Cassio and Desdemona's affair.

The Marriage Cursed

Due to the help of Iago and Rodreigo, Brabantio was told about his daughter's, Desdemona, affair with, who he thought to be his loyal friend, Othello.  Brabantio was very upset so he decided to have a meeting with Desdemona and Othello.  During this meeting Desdemona told her father But here’s my husband, "and so much duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much I challenge that I may profess due to the Moor my lord."  After this meeting Brabantio pulls Othello aside and says , "She has defied me and may thee."  At that note, Desdemona and Othello went on their journey to cyprus.