Roderigo Flashcards
Roderigo is coward and timid who is incapable of leading his own life. He prefers to become a puppet in the hands of Iago and lets him decide his own passage of actions. Even his wealth becomes yet another way for his exploitation. Iago cheats him of his gifts and money and pretends to forward it to Desdemona.
When asked by Iago to engage Cassio in a street brawl with himself, he agrees without a second thought. He is used by Iago for the accomplishment of the idlest and baseless of all his filthy acts.
He possesses no faculty of moral judgement and stoops to the level of trying to kill Cassio for no reason. He fails to know the seeming fact that a man like Iago has no integrity and wouldn’t even spare him from his venom. His thoughtlessness reaches its peak when he himself gets killed by Iago.
Roderigo is coward and timid who is incapable of leading his own life. He prefers to become a puppet in the hands of Iago and lets him decide his own passage of actions. Even his wealth becomes yet another way for his exploitation. Iago cheats him of his gifts and money and pretends to forward it to Desdemona.
When asked by Iago to engage Cassio in a street brawl with himself, he agrees without a second thought. He is used by Iago for the accomplishment of the idlest and baseless of all his filthy acts.
He possesses no faculty of moral judgement and stoops to the level of trying to kill Cassio for no reason. He fails to know the seeming fact that a man like Iago has no integrity and wouldn’t even spare him from his venom. His thoughtlessness reaches its peak when he himself gets killed by Iago.
quotes
“thus do I make my fool my purse”
“I will incontinently drown myself”
“put money in thy purse”
“Inhuman dog”
“I have no great devotion to the deed, and yet he hath given me satisfying reasons”
“I do not find that thou deals’t justly with me”
“thick lips” “gross clasps of the lascivious Moor”
