The greater complexity of Iago's character became more obvious, and he even gets his diagnosis'. The number of traditional interpretations was rejected in order to create new ones, more corresponding to this new point of view. According to this method, Iago at he very end becomes the antipode of Othello as we see him before his downfall, his dark side, becoming once more a personification of a certain mental concept rather than a complete personality. Again deprived of his human quality, Iago is made flat' and simplified. Shakespeare probably had some concept of introducing the abstract categories of good vs. evil, adding a certain universal dimension to Othello as a play, but to say that this symbolism is the main point of the characterization is clearly a mistake. Othello is even marked as the most realistic of all Shakespeare's
The greater complexity of Iago's character became more obvious, and he even gets his diagnosis'. The number of traditional interpretations was rejected in order to create new ones, more corresponding to this new point of view. According to this method, Iago at he very end becomes the antipode of Othello as we see him before his downfall, his dark side, becoming once more a personification of a certain mental concept rather than a complete personality. Again deprived of his human quality, Iago is made flat' and simplified. Shakespeare probably had some concept of introducing the abstract categories of good vs. evil, adding a certain universal dimension to Othello as a play, but to say that this symbolism is the main point of the characterization is clearly a mistake. Othello is even marked as the most realistic of all Shakespeare's