Othello teaches us that being jealous can get someone killed.Just because you love that person so much that they make your heart filled with joy.An when they make you jealous it’s like getting hit with a knife to the heart.Instead of joy in Othello’s heart‚he had fear in his heart.He feared losing his beloved Desdemona‚I feel like that was the biggest reason of killing her because of jealousy. An like i said before jealousy can get someone killed.Iago is jealous of Othello because he gave cassio
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“Othello”‚ one of the most successful literature of William Shakespeare‚ elaborates a tragic love story between a black soldier‚ Othello‚ and his white wife‚ Desdemona. The causes of Desdemona’s death have evoked controversy. It is undoubted that Othello’s bravery‚ intelligence‚ and ability on the battlefield that have gained him a prestigious honors as a soldier. However‚ Othello‚ as a soldier‚ is ill prepared for the war of love‚ which is reflected in the weak foundation of the love between himself
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paragon of virtue and justice nor undergoes the change to misfortune through any real badness or wickedness but because of some mistake” (Aristotle‚ 38). In Shakespeare’s play‚ both Othello and Desdemona fit well within these guidelines. Othello is a well-revered general who is called to defend Venice and Cyprus‚ and Desdemona is an honest and good-natured young woman. Both of them display the potential characteristics required of a tragic hero or heroine‚ with a tragic flaw that results in calamity.
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Love and Jealousy The play Othello written by William Shakespeare follows Othello who is betrayed by his best friend Iago. Iago’s manipulation causes Othello’s jealousy and effectively destroys the King of Moore’s life. Jealousy is a central theme in the play Othello because not only does it cause the protagonist’s death but it is also the motivation for Iago’s betrayal. One of the most significant scenes that portrays jealousy is when Roderigo uses lago to get close to Desdemona. It doesn’t
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Racism in Othello is able to be studied because of the contextual time period‚ and how human response changes in different contexts. Racism is one of the more broad viewing points in Othello‚ there is alot of points and techniques that can be observed in this theme. Iago has excused himself of his illdoings towards othello becuase of othello’s racial status. "I hate the moor and it is thought abroad that he twixt my sheets" Iago uses the word moor‚ tp directly reveal that he is expressing his discontent
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to Shakespeare ’s Iago‚ the almost too perfect villain in the play Othello. Different from the other typical trite villains‚ Iago has more depth in him other than being plain pure evil. Consumed with envy and plots Iago deceives and kills those who trust him‚ using the mask of "honest". As an amoral villain‚ it is not that Iago pushes aside his conscience to commit these acts‚ but that he lacks a conscience to begin with. Iago ’s amorality results in the marginality of Othello the Moor whom he supposed
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Jealousy is a strong feeling. It can overpower a person’s good will‚ and ability to make sensible decisions. In Shakespeare’s "Othello‚" Iago deals with the roots of jealousy. He conspires to use Othello’s good nature against him‚ to make Cassio lieutenant. Iago destroys Cassio’s reputation for his own greed. He has a name for jealousy‚ called the “green eyed monster”. He uses anybody he can to carry out his jealous revenge scheme on Othello‚ including his own wife‚ and ex-lieutenant. Iago desires
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Sinned or Sinner? Othello is more of a sinner because in the end he is the only one who killed Desdemona. Othello kills Desdemona because he thinks Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair. Othello talks to Desdemona in her last moments of life. Othello’s proof to kill Desdemona was the handkerchief. “A murder which I saw a sacrifice‚ I saw the handkerchief.” (5.2.174) the importance in this quote is that it was the only real proof Othello had that the supposed love affair was happening. The
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Othello’s love for Desdemona. When confessing his love for her in front of the senate Othello says‚ “She loved me for the dangers I had passed‚/ And I loved her that she did pity them” (I.iii.193-194). At the beginning of the play Othello clearly states the reason why he and desdemona fell in love with each other. Neither of them fell in love with each other’s personality‚ but instead fell for the idea of the other.Desdemona fell in love with Othello for the stories he told from his past‚ leaving
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Othello paper The Green Monster Jealousy is a common emotion that everyone shares at one point in life. At most times it is when a person is most vulnerable and insecure that he loses faith in the things he once felt so certain about. Othello‚ being of a different race‚ is a man who fights for all he has ever had in life including the marriage to the senator’s daughter Desdemona‚ who is not a suitable match for a man like him. In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello‚ Shakespeare cleverly
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