Nostalgia

Social learning has been a big part of our research "project" (if you will) and so I took the time to get into contact with my English teacher from my senior year of High School.  She has taught a unit on the play Othello for I don't know how many years and she was eager to offer further insight into what I am currently researching as regards Shakespeare's play.  She was as fascinated as I was with Iago's character.  She has always been a great appreciator of the ideal villain and Iago is a choice character in that regard.  I am still in the process of sorting through the thoughts she communicated to me and I have found many of them helpful as well as directing.  Iago is a man of winding motivations all revolving around one man, Othello, and he steps on people as he climbs closer to his goal and closer to the moor.  He uses everyone around him as disguises almost, just as characters in other of Shakespeare's plays have used actual disguises to fool those around them.