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Brenda.Arizmendi

Brenda.Arizmendi. Roderigo (Rod). Roderigo is a rich, unintelligent guy who thinks that if he sends Desdemona enough expensive presents, she'll fall in love with him. . Iago is a soldier who has fought beside Othello for several years. Iago is a Machiavellian schemer and manipulator.

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Brenda.Arizmendi

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  1. Brenda.Arizmendi

  2. Roderigo (Rod) Roderigo is a rich, unintelligent guy who thinks that if he sends Desdemona enough expensive presents, she'll fall in love with him.

  3. Iago is a soldier who has fought beside Othello for several years. • Iago is a Machiavellian schemer and manipulator Lago

  4. The character has no counterpart in Shakespeare's source material for the play but is apparently the Bard's complete invention. He appears in the first act only and is mentioned in the fifth. Brabanito

  5. The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, a high-ranking soldier, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He is upset by this development because he loves Desdemona and had previously asked her father for her Othello

  6. Cassio survives a murder attempt by Roderigo, wounding his attacker, and is appointed deputy governor of Cyprus after Othello is recalled to Venice. Cassio

  7. The important men in charge of Venice. • – even that he might make a pretty great son-in-law Duke of Venice

  8. Desdemona is a beautiful, young, white, Venetian debutante, her father's pride and joy. But she refuses to marry any of the rich, handsome Venetian men that everyone expects her to marry. Dedemona

  9. Governor of Cyprus before Othello showed up to take command, Montano ends up getting in a fight with Cassio, and in turn gets Cassio in serious trouble. Montano

  10. Emilia's one dishonest act towards Desdemona – stealing her special handkerchief – turns out to have devastating consequences. Emilia

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