Othello

It is nice to be reading a legitimate play again! Compared to The Piano Lesson Othello is definitely more appropriate to our age level. Although the reading is somewhat harder to understand, there is more to get out of it. Shakespeare's writings are a little hard to understand, but that is half the fun of it.

From what I understand the first scene to be, Iago is telling Roderigo how he is unhappy that Othello did not pick him to be his lieutenant.He is angry at both Othello and at Cassio, whom was picked instead of him, because he feels he is more apt to do the job. Iago starts to get revenge on Othello by first waking up Othello's wife's father, named Barbantio. Iago yells that Barbantio is being robbed.