The Responsibility Of Passion In Shakespeare's Othello

Passion can be both a display of strength as well as weakness, and in the play Othello it plays a key role in how the characters interact with each other. Most of the men in the play are in power positions; lieutenant, senator, duke, warrior - though they are the ones that have displayed the most passion. Iago is driven by his passion for destruction, his machinations directed at all the people around him, including his wife. His fanaticism allows for unreasonable ideas to situate themselves in his brain, and he become so driven towards manipulating them that he forgets that there could be a possibility of falsified fantasies. When Brabantio finds out that his innocently perceived daughter, Desdemona has married Othello he becomes enraged,