Othello's Soliloquy Analysis

Othello’s soliloquy has a tendency of being driven by passion and emotion, as we descend into it further it gets infested by jealousy. The soliloquy shows that Othello’s crime is roused by emotions. Nevertheless, Iago’s soliloquy exposes his tactics and concepts of how he wants to create a mayhem in Othello’s life. My thesis is that even though in a way these two characters are similar as they both murder, they have different motives and thought processes behind the crime committed. Iago had perpetrated these criminalities for supremacy and for sport, feeling no hesitation or guilt while planning them out. While Othello is continuously going back and forth with his intentions of murder.
Right from the start Othello’s soliloquy echoes his differing insolences for Desdemona; in
Othello constantly shifts in articulating his loathing of Desdemona to insinuating that there is a chance that she could have committed such an inexcusable blunder. This advocates that Othello is capable of looking for the existence of confirmatory and positive ideals connected with the character of a person and thus it explains his capability to love people. By referring to Desdemona as the reason for his current desolation, Othello commences to assert his motives for the murder of his wife: “It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul” (V. ii. 1). However, it can be seen that he is unable to stop himself from remarking on the white purity of her skin. This characteristic of Desdemona gives Othello a tough time to reconcile with as he still believes that she is unfaithful to him. The conflicting opinions offered by Iago and Desdemona’s external look increase Othello’s intrinsic scuffle, mostly because at the said point Othello is blinded by jealousy and it has triggered him to modify his insight of authenticity. He only can see disloyalty