"Damned as thou art, thou hast enchanted her. / For I'll refer me to all things of sense / If she in chains of magic were not bound, / If she in chains of magic were not bound, / So opposite to marriage that she shunned / The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, / Would ever have, to incur a general mock, / Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom / Of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight." (I.ii.62-71).
Like any other Shakespeare play, Othello, the Moor of Venice is filled with metaphors, symbolism, irony, and so much more. The story is mainly told from Iago's perspective, but there is no set narrator in this piece. I just find it ironic that Iago has everything thinking that he is a good and honest man. In reality, Iago is very deceiving and knows how to maneuver people's minds. I also found symbolism when he was telling Roderigo "We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed." In this instance, Iago is the secretly the master. He needs others to obey him. He does not even command other people to do things: he finds a way to have others' sympathy in order to get what he wants. For example, he casts Othello in a horrible light to Brabantio to get the support of Desdemona's father. He says, "you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse, you'll have your nephews neigh to you, you'll have coursers for cousins, and jennets for germans" (I.i.110-112). It's almost to the point where I feel that Iago is so insecure that he has to make others look bad just to get what he wants. Iago obviously wants Othello's position in the army, and he is willing to go to extremes (or in this case, subtleties) to get what he wants.
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