Othello's Images Speak In the tragedy Othello Shakespeare uses images to speak between the lines, to create moods, to create a more dramatic impact on the audience's mind and others reasons . Let's consider the types and impact of images. A surprising variety of zoo-like images of animals are presented throughout the show. Kenneth Muir, in the Introduction to William Shakespeare: Othello, explains the conversion of Othello's diction: Those who have written about the play's imagery have shown how the hold Iago has on Othello is illustrated by the language Shakespeare puts in their mouths. 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) HS 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 the damnation of Othello and that the implication is reiterated with particular force in the images. The latter is equivalent to interpreting the suggestions of the images as a means of commentary by the author - the analogy would be the choruses of Gre...... middle of paper ......enhaven Press, 1996. Reprinted by Shakespeare: The design of 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.