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A 7 page paper which examines keeping secrets in Shakespeare’s Othello and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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as well as dramas, mysteries and comedies. In the czse of William Shakespeares Othello and Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest both stories are very different in their plot
and format for Othello is a clear tragedy while The Importance of Being Earnest is a raging comedy. But, both possess an element of mystery that supports the plot and
this element is in the keeping of secrets. Both plays have a character, or more than one character, who is keeping a secret and within that secret is the essential
plot of the story. The following paper examines each story separately as it involves how keeping secrets supports the development of the tragedy or the comedy, and then discusses the
two stories together, comparing and contrasting the two. Keeping Secrets: Othello The primary character in Othello and the one who truly keeps the secrets is Iago. Iago is
the villain of the story and the man who constructs the entire plot of the play through keeping secrets. In the first act and first scene of the play Iago
states his first secret when he indicates, "Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains. Yet, for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign
of love" (Shakespeare I i). He sets the premise for keeping secrets when he informs the audience or reader that he hates Othello but will pretend otherwise. Shrtly thereafter
he begins to truly bring Roderigo into the plot, but Iago only ever really reveals the truth to the audience. The audience understands the full ramifications of Iagos use of
another, his keeping of secrets, when Roderigo leaves at one point and Iago tells the audience, "Thus do I ever make my fool my purse" (Shakespeare I iii). In this
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