How Rough Can a Rough Draft Be?

 So after a bunch of unforeseen and unfortunate circumstances, he is a too brief, too rough draft or mere shadow of what my potential paper will be.  More secondary research to be done, incorporation of primary quotes to come.

Lauren Remington

Dr. Burton

English 382

22 March 2013

Creative Title

            Although all of Shakespeare’s plays are unique in their own way, and brilliant in style and ability to cater to the masses both then and now, he does seem to have a frame or mold which has worked effectively and which also makes it possible to relate between the plays characters and ideas, particularly his use of disguises.  In his play Othello, Shakespeare, contrary to using disguises, uses the character Iago, who easily transforms himself with each character he talks to, absorbing new identity after new persona in order to reach his dark and also obscure ends.  It is never made completely plain why Iago is motivated to the deaths and despairs he causes and his chameleon like nature make him seem like lass of a human character and more like a series of personas adopted into one individual to serve a rhetorical purpose and provide plot.  Iago's change in character and ability to appease everyone he talks to is directly relateable to others of Shakespeare's characters who easily don disguises to fool their peers because his own change in character has a similar effect on his fellows.  Carl Jung, well-known personality theorist and psychologist, was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud and adopted some of Freud’s ideas to develop a theory in which the parts and attitudes of the unconscious identity, instead of battling each other to take control, are working to have unity within the individual.  Jung's theory of the unconscious and its contentious attitudes reflects well the way in which Shakespeare's love of disguises in his characters and even more specifically in Iago's character who jumps from character to character to fit his motivations.

-explicit analysis of Iago’s character

-detailed analysis of Jung’s theories

            Iago is a personified version of this theory.  The unconscious attitudes fighting for prominence are physically portrayed in Iago’s interactions.  Jung’s archetypes or unconscious is “a universal thought form or predisposition to respond to the world in certain ways,” (Engler 74).  Iago seems to have internalized a number of responses and personas which Jung further refers to as “the social role that one assumes in society and one’s understanding of it,” (74).  Iago is a selfish self-centered character who functions in society through the scope of things that will best benefit him.

I am working on a more explicit outline of  my paper and specific pieces of Jung's theory that I want to relate back to Iago's character.  I already have a specific scene in mind that illustrates Iago's character and am going to spend some time analyzing it in relation to Jung's theories.