Othello Not Observant

Othello is one of the most famous pieces of Shakespeare’s artworks. The play shows how one’s jealousy can destroy their own life. The characters in the play also show the flaws, ugliness and dirtiness behind people’s kindness, such as betrayal, doubt between people and more evil things. AC Bradley, a well-respected Shakespearian critic, suggest: “Othello’s mind for all its poetry is very simple. He is not observant. His nature tends outward. He is quite free from introspection, and is not given to reflection. Emotion excites his imagination, but confuses and dulls his intellect.” Othello is a very confusing character. He first shows that he is kind of smart that he can persuade the Dukes to give him the right to be with Desdemona, but later he shows that he is so simple and so not observant that caused him blind by the love and die for the love.
There are some evidences Othello shows he is a very simple minded person. He does not think about the
Othello’s emotion affects his imagination, such as when Iago tells him that Cassio sleeps with Desdemona. “Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion without some instruction. It is not words that shakes me thus,” (Othello, Act IV, scene I, line 37 - 40). When Othello says this, it tells the audiences he defiantly believes Iago’s lie. If “It is not words that shakes me thus”, then he must imagine the scene. Othello’s imagination can go above his intellect, because he becomes so irrational after imagines the scene and he even faints after saying the quote. When Bianca tells Othello she gets the handkerchief that Othello gives Desdemona from Cassio, Othello suddenly link that to Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio and she gives Cassio the handkerchief as a proof that Desdemona like him. His imagination defiantly goes beyond his intellect that he does not even think twice about how Bianca gets the handkerchief or think about to ask