Othello - William Shakespeare
Othello is the title of the character and play that we all studied earlier this semester. However, it is Othello the character that I intend to discuss. Othello is the husband to the beautiful and innocent Desdemona, whom he murders because the villainous and honest Iago has misled him. A Moorish general in Venice, a society plagued with racism and where adultery is neither condemned nor approved of, Othello is in the midst of a society that will hinder and not support his progress. The central theme of the drama is the alteration of a noble lover to a raving killer, under the influence of the deliberate connivance of his aide, Iago, who convinces him that his wife is having a love affair with another officer named Cassio. Unable to trust the falsely corrupted Desdemona - he lacks the essential element of love and it is this absence of trust that causes Othello to disintegrate morally. This destructiveness extends to his own suicide, when his error of judging Desdemona to be an adulteress fails him. Our closely woven relationship with this traumatised and gullible Othello causes us to suffer with him, as he experiences emotional agonies, such as the destruction of his once reputable nobility, character and marr
In the end though, Othello still manages to contemplate his love for his wife when he sees her asleep. Sadly as a demonstration of his foully motivated ambition he kills her with a coolness which is frightening. His reaction to the discovery of her true innocence is, however, in stark contrast. He recognises that he is no longer noble, for he calls himself: "He that was Othello", in Act V, Scene II. Othello also equates himself to the heathens he used to slaughter and kill himself. Nonetheless, as the play procedes, Othello even comes to resemble the villain in his speech, using staccato or broken repetitions and he also makes an unhealthy habit of using violent, sexual and animal imagery, In Act IV, Scene II Othello indulges in a great exaggeration of his jealousy when he believes Desdemona to be a prostitute, and Emila, the wife of Iago t be her pimp,
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Approximate Word count = 1007
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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