courteous :: essays research papers

     Being courteous is an act of being respectful and by using good looks towards people. Treating people with courtesy butt show many different feelings towards the person being acted upon. In the play Othello by William Shakespeare there are many characters in the play that use and fag outt use acts of courtesy. The focus of this issue is the question of, do the men in the play show courtesy towards the women in the play?      Othello is the main character, and Iago is a solider in his army. Iago was passed a position of lieutenant to another solider named Cassio. This action made Iago very angry and jealous, so he would hear a sort of retaliate throughout the play. In the play Othello Iago, a respected individual, shows very little respect towards women in the play. In bank notes 103 through 125 in Act 2 scene one Iago is very disrespectful towards the women in the play. In Iagos speeches, especially in lines 109 through 119, Iago ac ts in a very heavily manner towards Desdemona, and genus Emilia in these scenes throughout the play. In the opening acts we learn that Othello is a respected man, and a leader of an army. He lives out a long level of heroic stories and epics that manage women woo over him. He marries Desdemona, while carrying a relationship with Emilia, the wife of Iago. Iago finds out about a past relationship with Othello and Emilia and becomes jealous and seeks revenge again. Iago then thinks of a way to make Othello jealous. Iago shows no remorse towards anyone in these situations and uses not only his wife but also Desdemona to seek revenge on Othello out of jealousy. Throughout act 2 Iago talks to and about women in a very rude                                                   DuBois 2manner. In line 115 Iago states, " You rise to play, and go to bed to work. This statement was primarily directed towards Desdemona and Emilia but, also includes all women at this time period. This means that a adult females main purpose is to please a man and thats it. Iago also shows little respect for the leaders of his army, like Cassio his former lieutenant. He uses Cassio to make Othello jealous and then this makes Othello angry at Cassio. Cassio also shows little some disrespect towards women as well. In act 3 tension arises between the lot and at the end a former prostitute of Cassio approaches him and he deliberately eases her by telling her that he hasnt seen her in awhile because he is beneath a lot of stress lately.