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Essay / Othello Free Essays: The Emotions of Othello Othello...
The Emotions of Othello The movement of this play was based on the relationship or friendships between Othello, Iago and Cassio. Although the women in this book played an important role in adding to the sense of vengeance and power in this play, everything stopped in the relationship between the three men. This room was filled with many different emotions, felt by each of the characters as they interacted with each other. The emotions that mainly evolved in this play were: Power, jealousy, revenge and the very questionable love between the characters. This story shows how power is such a strong desire of people that some will stop at nothing to get it and that hurting people is an option if they have to get it. It all started with Othello, the main character of this book. Othello was a Moor and general of the Venetian army. He was a very powerful man who made big decisions, a decision that changed his life forever. Othello was very trustworthy and trustworthy. He had so much trust in the people he was close to that it affected his life and he believed a lot of things he shouldn't have. Due to overconfidence and belief in others, this caused him to become an angry and jealous man. All of his best characteristics were pushed aside deep within his soul and allowed the worst to take over him. All of this jealous rage in Othello came from the lies that the manipulative and evil Iago had told Othello about his wife Desdemona. Iago is Othello's standard-bearer and he has come to hate him, leading Iago to create Othello and make him pay by destroying his love for his wife Desdemona. Iago had become jealous towards Cassio and vengeful towards Othello. He had become like this when Othello had appointed Cassio as lieutenant in the army and not him. Iago felt he deserved the position of lieutenant more than Cassio. Iago also felt that Othello chose Cassio over him for this position because of the friendship between the two. Cassio is a dear friend of Othello and Desdemona. Cassio was friends with Othello before he met Desdemona. Cassio is the person who brought Othello and Desdemona together. Othello and Cassio can be considered best friends. Since they have been friends for so long, Cassio and Othello's relationship should be very close and trusting towards each other. However, what happens in this play calls into question the friendship between Cassio and Othello. In theory, Cassio got the job not only because he was close friends with Othello, but also because he was more educated, handsome, and more competent than Iago. The whole downfall of Othello and Iago is caused when the villain and manipulator goes to lie to Othello about Desdemona. Iago believes that the only way to destroy Othello is to destroy the relationship between him and his wife as well as the friendship between Cassio and Othello. We know that Desdemona is Othello's strength and that she makes him who he is and he is nothing without her. Iago believes that if he manages to destroy their relationship, Othello will automatically become weak and feel that he no longer has a reason to live and will simply give up. He tries to destroy the friendship between Cassio and Othello, so that he can take away the title of lieutenant, and probably have no choice but to give this title to Iago. Basically this is two strikes in one with Othello and will most likely cause him to fall and lose his power. What Iago does to accomplish this mission is that he tells Othello that his innocent and loving wife is having an affair with his named lieutenant and close friend Cassio. He tried to make Othello believe that the two had aconnection in act 3. sc. 3. Iago says to Othello to make him suspect that they are having an affair: "Look at your wife; watch her carefully with Cassio,..." At first, Othello does not believe that the love of his life Desdemona would commit an act if unfaithful, and he asks Iago for proof. In Act 3. Sc. 3, Iago says to Othello: "I speak not yet of proof." At that time, Iago had no proof. Iago kept saying that Desdemona is flirtatious and that she was not what Othello thought she was, but yet Othello still did not believe him. Of course, the idea of what Iago had lied to him never left him, but it wasn't a fact for him. What started the situation between Othello and Desdemona was when he caught Cassio with the handkerchief. This handkerchief had sentimental meanings between the two of them. Othello gave this handkerchief to Desdemona when they first wanted to express his love, or simply his feelings, to her. His mother gave it to him and he gave it to her. When he saw Cassio with this same handkerchief, he thought that Desdemona had given it to Cassio, which made him furious with jealousy and suspicion. What really happened was that Desdemona misplaced that handkerchief, and Emilia got it back and she wasn't going to give it back. She gave it to Iago, and Iago gave it to Cassio. That's why Othello saw him with the handkerchief. After that, Cassio gave it to Bianca and told her to make a copy, and that someone would come back to claim it. Othello told Desdemona about the handkerchief as she lay on her deathbed. He mentions to him in act 5. sc 2: “This handkerchief that I loved so much and that I gave you, you gave to Cassio. He immediately accused him of having given it to Cassio, drawing hasty conclusions. She told him it wasn't and he asked her where it was and she couldn't tell him, which made him even angrier, and he thought she was lying . From that point on, Othello continually blamed his innocent wife for committing an unfaithful act, but he never came out to ask her if she was or was having an affair with Cassio. Othello had called Desdemona a whore in Act 5. sc. 2: “Trumpet exit”. This point here shows that Othello's confidence was not as strong as readers might have thought. There was a lack of communication between the two at that time, because if there really was communication between them, then he would have asked her and Cassio about it. There was also a lack of communication between Cassio and Othello. If they had a good friendship, they should have had a good level of communication, which they could not have otherwise Othello would have questioned him about the accused affair between Desdemona and Cassio. He never confronted Desdemona about the rumor, nor Cassio. If their friendship was really that close, he should have told her about it too. Then again, perhaps Othello was so upset and hurt that any solution to this problem could have been blocked out of his mind. Although he jumped to conclusions about this whole situation, I guess at that moment everything was falling into place about that thought, but it all happened by pure coincidence. By this time, Othello's characteristics towards these characters had become questionable. It was like she was truly who he was meant to be to them. Did he really trust Desdemona enough to believe she would cheat on him? Were he and Cassio such good friends that he would think Cassio would do such a thing to him? Was Iago really not a trustworthy person, because Othello didn't believe him at first, but the thought never left him. That Othello believes Iago, even before questioning Cassio or Desdemona, shows that Othello allowed Iago to manipulate him. Othello.