Othello's Images SpeakIn the tragedy Othello the Bard of Avon uses images to speak between the lines, to create moods, to create a more dramatic impact on the audience's mind and to other reasons. Let's consider the images in this essay. A surprising variety of animal injuries occur during the show, similar to those in a zoo. Kenneth Muir, in the Introduction to William Shakespeare: Othello, explains Othello's conversion through his increased use of animal imagery: Those who have written about the play's imagery have shown how the hold Iago has on Othello is illustrated by the language of Shakespeare. puts it in your mouth. Both characters use a lot of animal imagery and it is interesting to note their distribution. Iago's is found above all in the first three acts of the play: he mentions, for example, the donkey, the paws, the flies, the ram, the hen, the guinea fowl, the baboon, the wild cat, the snipe, the goats, monkeys, monsters and wolves. Othello, on the other hand, who makes no use of animal imagery in the first two Acts of the play, catches Iago's trick in Acts III and IV. Both characters' fondness for mentioning repugnant animals and insects is one way Shakespeare shows his subordinate's corruption of the Moor's mind. (21-22)How strong is the power of the images in this drama? Is it more powerful than the chorus of ancient Greek tragedy? H. S. Wilson in his book of literary criticism, On the Design of Shakespearean Tragedy, discusses the influence of the play's imagery: It has indeed been suggested that the logic of the events in the play and Othello's relation to them implies Othello's damnation , and that the implication is reiterated with particular force in the images....... center of the sheet......enhaven Press, 1996. Reprinted from Shakespeare: The Pattern in His Carpet. Np: np, 1970.Heilman, Robert B. “Spirit and Witchcraft: An Approach to Othello.” Shakespeare: Modern Essays in Criticism. Ed. Leonard F. Dean. Rev. Ed. Rpt. from The Sewanee Review, LXIV, 1 (Winter 1956), 1-4, 8-10; and Arizona Quarterly (Spring 1956), pp.5-16.Mack, Maynard. Everyone is Shakespeare: reflections especially on tragedies. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.Muir, Kenneth. Introduction. William Shakespeare: Othello. New York: Penguin Books, 1968.Shakespeare, William. Othello. In Electric Shakespeare. Princeton University. 1996. http://www.eiu.edu/~multilit/studyabroad/othello/othello_all.html No lines nos.Wilson, HS On the Design of Shakespearean Tragedy. Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1957.