Monologue

Iago Monologue from Othello

From Othello by William Shakespeare

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I have rubb’d this young quat almost to the sense, And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio, Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other, Every way makes my gain. Live Roderigo, He calls me to a restitution large Of gold and jewels that I bobb’d from him, As gifts to Desdemona. It must not be. If Cassio do remain, He hath a daily beauty in his life That makes me ugly. And besides, the Moor May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril. No, he must die. But so, I hear him coming. Enter Cassio.

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Iago plots the downfall of Cassio while expressing his own jealousy and anger towards Othello, revealing his manipulative nature and the dangerous stakes of his schemes.

30s · anger · betrayal · revenge · jealousy · power

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