#he also suspects othello had sex with emilia and tosses out that he wants to have sex with desdemona | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

frankensteincest · 1 year ago

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I think there’s something in Iago (almost certainly) lying about Cassio coming onto him in his sleep as he dreams of Desdemona -> Iago and Cassio being the only ones left alive at the end of the play, especially with Desdemona’s body being cast in the typical necrophilic light, but idk what.

#log.#shakespeare #this play is so overtly obsessed with sex but sex never happens and desire goes haywire #that it’s hard to untangle it all neatly #obviously there’s iago in love with othello #he also suspects othello had sex with emilia and tosses out that he wants to have sex with desdemona #iago calls cassio attractive and contrasts himself negatively with cassio #then there’s the lay with him + ‘this was but his dream’ whose........#and most importantly the death-tainted and husband-bemoaning intimacy between desdemona and emilia #the thing is. othello verbally abuses her and emilia repeats his words even though it obviously distresses desdemona #hello??#anyway. all this is to say #iago wanted to fuck othello but he also wanted cassio I think

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