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Othello is personally one of my favorite Shakespearean plays and this opening is stellar. Iago is the main focus being a better Aaron than Aaron, by starting off the very beginning of the play setting a major plan into action. His very surrounding is in the haze and cover of night. Traditionally dusk is where trickery and evil is present and this will be seen throughout the rest of the play. Interestingly enough we see a common them in the plays we have read in which Shakespeare creates a power player who is just outside the realm of vision of the victims/tragic heroes. When Barbanzio and crew charge into the Duke’s meeting the focus is on Othello and crew, however Iago influence is there but it’s as if his presence is not. Shakespeare was a master of creating these characters. This will be a constant theme and it will be interesting to discuss how Iago’s presence is always around like a spectre influencing the characters of the play.