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Othello Summary For Paper 2 (Literature Essay)
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These Othello summaries offer an in-depth guide to fully prepare you for English Paper Two. Included are a comprehensive play summary, detailed character descriptions, analyses of themes and symbols, and a selection of potential essay topics to enhance your practice.

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Othello




By: Jade Skye Crous

,Full Play Summary
Othello begins on a street in Venice, in the midst of an argument between Roderigo,

a rich man, and Iago. Roderigo has been

paying Iago to help him win Desdemona's

hand in marriage. But Roderigo has just

learned that Desdemona has married

Othello, a general whom Iago begrudgingly

serves as ensign. Iago says he hates

Othello, who recently passed him over for the position of lieutenant in favor of the

inexperienced soldier Michael Cassio.


Unseen, Iago and Roderigo cry out to Brabantio that his daughter Desdemona has

been stolen by and married to Othello, the Moor. Brabanzio finds that his daughter is

indeed missing, and he gathers some officers to find Othello. Not wanting his hatred

of Othello to be known, Iago leaves Roderigo and hurries back to Othello before

Brabanzio sees him. At Othello’s lodgings, Cassio arrives with an urgent message

from the duke: Othello’s help is

needed in the matter of the imminent

Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Not long

afterward, Brabanzio arrives with

Roderigo and others, and accuses

Othello of stealing his daughter by

witchcraft. When he finds out that Othello is on his way to speak with the duke,

Brabanzio decides to go along and accuse Othello before the assembled senate.


Brabanzio’s plan backfires. The duke and senate are very sympathetic toward

Othello. Given a chance to speak for himself, Othello explains that he wooed and

won Desdemona not by witchcraft but with the stories of his adventures in travel and



By: Jade Skye Crous

, war. The duke finds Othello’s explanation convincing, and Desdemona herself enters

at this point to defend her choice in marriage and to announce to her father that her

allegiance is now to her husband. Brabanzio is frustrated but acquiesces and allows

the senate meeting to resume. The duke says that Othello must go to Cyprus to aid

in the defense against the Turks, who are headed for the island. Desdemona insists

that she accompany her husband on his trip, and preparations are made for them to

depart that night.


In Cyprus the following day, two gentlemen stand on the shore with Montano, the

governor of Cyprus. A third gentleman

arrives and reports that the Turkish fleet

has been wrecked in a storm at sea.

Cassio, whose ship did not suffer the

same fate, arrives soon after, followed

by a second ship carrying Iago,

Roderigo, Desdemona, and Emilia, Iago’s wife. Once they have landed, Othello’s

ship is sighted, and the group goes to the harbor. As they wait for Othello, Cassio

greets Desdemona by clasping her hand. Watching them, Iago tells the audience

that he will use “as little a web as this” hand-holding to ensnare Cassio (II.i.169).


Othello arrives, greets his wife, and announces that there will be reveling that

evening to celebrate Cyprus’s safety from the Turks. Once everyone has left,

Roderigo complains to Iago that he has no

chance of breaking up Othello’s marriage.

Iago assures Roderigo that as soon as

Desdemona’s “blood is made dull with the

act of sport,” she will lose interest in

Othello and seek sexual satisfaction

elsewhere (II.i.222). However, Iago warns that “elsewhere” will likely be with Cassio.


By: Jade Skye Crous

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