Emotions In Macbeth And Othello

In Shakespeare's Othello, Othello's pride prevents him from finding the truth, eventually leading to his demise. Initially, Othello and Desdemona are deeply in love, despite her father's disapproval of their marriage. However, when Othello promotes Cassio instead of Iago to Lieutenant, Iago has his revenge by convincing Othello that Desdemona cheats on him with Cassio, destroying the marriage between Othello and Desdemona. Othello grows to meet his downfall when his trusted friend Iago causes him to think that his wife Desdemona is unfaithful.

In Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, he exhibits the personal transformation of Macbeth, a general with the huge desire. Based on the tragic ending of Macbeth, Shakespeare reveals the versatility and complexity of human nature, exhibits the distortion of natural mind of people. In Shakespeare’s thought, Macbeth’s tragedy is mainly accomplished by three evil acts assassinating Ducan, killing Banquo, and massacre the family of Macduff. Macbeth wants to be a great man with his great ambition. In his initial desire of human nature, he hopes to achieve ambition by proper means; however, under the temptation of witches and instigation of his wife, the original calm, and balance of Macbeth is broken. When his impatient desire tilts the balance between his emotions and his senses, Macbeth comes up with the delusion of killing Ducan and Banquo. Thus, Macbeth is immersed in an extreme self-contradiction that inner good and evil keeps struggling. Author shows the characteristic evolution of Macbeth from an illustrious military general and valiant hero who brings peace and stability to the country to a selfish careerist and a bloody tyrant who only pursues his own goal. Shakespeare depicts Macbeth as the victim of desire and lack of moral judgment between good and evil in order to question the human internal contradiction of conscience and ambition.

The tragedy of Othello, written by William Shakespeare, presents the main character Othello, as a respectable, honorable, and dignified man, but because of his insecurities and good nature, he is easily taken advantage of and manipulated by his peers and alleged friends. The dynamic of Othello’s character significantly changes throughout the play. The contrast is most pronounced from the beginning of the play to its conclusion, switching from being calm and peaceful to acts of uncontrolled venomous rage. Othello’s motivation in the play appears to be his love and concern for his wife Desdemona, which ironically, ends up being his downfall in the end.

It takes both the audience’s pity and fear to make a tragic and heroic character become a tragic hero. Macbeth earns both. The audience can fear Macbeth because they know that he is capable of murder. He lacks the ability to stand up to Lady Macbeth when he knows something is not morally right and that is frightening, but even after all the pain and suffering of other characters the audience

He gets nervous easily, and feeling guilt can overwhelm him. This is why he sometimes needs a pep-talk from Lady Macbeth before he commits a murder or tells a lie. He can not handle the pressure from his guilt and worry. Other characters, such as The Lady, don’t notice their feelings as much and therefore aren’t affected greatly by them, unlike Macbeth. Macbeth’s feeling can affect the choices in a bad way, a way that makes Macbeth less eager and confident to go after what he wants. A time when his emotions hold him back is when he gives himself some advice after seeing Banquo's ghost, “Strange things I have in head, that will to hand; / Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd” (3.4.138-139). At this time, he is telling himself that he needs to act quick or his feelings will catch up to him. If he doesn’t do the deed soon enough, guilt, worry, shame, and similar emotions will overwhelm him and he might not be emotionally stable enough to do it. Macbeth knows that if he lets his feelings get to him, his plans will be destroyed by his cowardliness. If he wanted to do anything that he needed to do in the beginning of the play, he needed to ignore his feelings. But, it is not until Malcolm's army sought after Macbeth when he learned to do this. An instance when Macbeth controls his emotions is when his own wife dies right before Macbeth heads off to his doom. When he heard the news, he said, “She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word” (5.5.17-18). When he heard this news, he could have broken down and refused to fight, he could have let the sorrow destroy his battle. But instead he pressed on, and he braved it and went to fight like a real man. Braving death is not something he could do at the beginning of the play, when he could not control his emotions well. This shows that Macbeth grows and changes

Othello’s trust for Iago enables Iago to completely discredit Othello as the good guy of the play when Iago manipulates him into thinking Desdemona was unfaithful to him with Cassio. Even though Othello must know in his heart that Desdemona would not betray him, he is so caught up by Iago's efforts and has fallen for his manipulative lies, that all rational thoughts abandons Othello and he ultimately ends up murdering his wife since to Othello betrayal was immoral. At the end of play, even Othello can hardly believe what he has done because he thinks of himself as, "One not easily jealous, but, being wrought, perplexed in the extreme..." meaning that he has acted out of character and only in the interests of honor. Iago’s betrayal to those such as Othello and Desdemona, ultimately successfully destroyed everyone, himself included.

Othello is not hurt because of a failing love, but because of how it makes him look and hurts his pride. This is when things get ugly. Othello puts more trust in Iago than in his own wife. This is due, in part, to Iago's manipulative skills, but mostly to Othello's lack of communication skills, especially with his wife. But Desdemona does not do anything to mediate the situation and lets the condition escalate, and her self-blaming attitude only perpetuates Othello's misgiven notion that she has been falsely accused . After Othello strikes her in front of the whole dinner party, and orders her around like a peasant,

. He is admired by everyone in the play, even Iago comments on what a good man Othello is. Secondly, a tragic hero can not be perfect. He or she must have a flaw of some kind. In Othello’s case it is that he allows his emotions to take over. Manipulated by Iago’s lies, Othello is forced to confront emotions he obviously can not handle. His wisdom and patience are replaced by anger and hate. The power of these destructive emotions ultimately lead to Desdemona’s death and Othello’s suicide

Othello’s love for Desdemona was so deep he could not bear the thought of another being with her; “If she be false, O! Then heaven mocks itself. I’ll not believe’t.” Iago uses the characters of Cassio and the obsessive Roderigo as his weapons in his cunning plan. Iago drives the idea into Othello’s mind that Desdemona has been unfaithful, inciting him into a state of jealousy. “Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee; and when I love thee not, chaos is come again.” Othello growing insecurities about his wife’s faithfulness only adds to his psychological suffering which in turn acts as a catalyst towards the suffering of other characters involved in the play.Iago tells these lies with the intention of driving Othello insane as well as establish his dominance and influence the situations of those characters close to Othello. Evidence of this comes in one of Iago’s soliloquies from act two, scene one; “That Cassio loves her, I do well Believe’t: That she loves him, ‘tis apt and of great credit.” This section shows that he is trying to convince himself that his own manipulative lies are true and is trying to reassure his motives by justifying his own actions. By convincing Othello

Othello’s anger prevents him from having a healthy marriage, i.e. one with open communication. When Iago implies that Desdemona had sex with Cassio, Othello gets filled with rage. He says, “First to be hanged, and then to confess—I tremble at it. Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion without some instruction. It is not words that shake me thus” (IV. i. 40-43). Othello

Emotions have some control over our actions. However, there are other factors that influence what we do. In the play Othello though, emotions have way more power over the characters' actions. For example, the actions committed by characters consumed by love are greatly amplified. Another example of this is that the characters in the play that are consumed by jealousy go to far greater lengths than one normally would to quench their thirst for vengeance. The last instance that proves this is that the actions of characters overcome by despair are based solely on their hopelessness. These three points all help to show that in the play Othello, Shakespeare exaggerates how much our actions are affected by the major emotions of love, jealousy,

In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth goes through many emotions and feelings. It’s important for people to express their feelings and emotions, but do they know how to control what they are feeling? People often keep their emotions bottled up such as Lady Macbeth does, which can cause negative emotional reactions. William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth shows how Lady Macbeth experiences many emotions and keeps them bottled up, which eventually causes her to lose control of her own emotions and thoughts. People need to learn how to express and control their emotions to avoid negative reactions, such as what Lady Macbeth has come to experience.

It is here that the audience begins seeing a different identity of Othello. Who was once regarded as so valiant and courageous, was now beginning to show signs of severe insecurities dealing with matters, most importantly, such as his lack of experience in love and marriage causing shadows of doubt over his confidence in himself and his ability to be loved by and worthy of someone like Desdemona. Desdemona, although not intentionally, seems to be the reason for all the unrest in Othello. This is an instance in the play when irony shines it's smiling face upon Shakespeare's most tragic characters. Othello feels truly happy with the presence of Desdemona in his life (Act II.1, 181-187):

"The Tragedy of Othello Written by William Shakespeare" highlights a variety of ways in which males and females reacted to intense situations." The emotions of the characters changed from the start of Act 1, the end of Act 1, and continued as the story of Othello progressed. In Act 1, the main protagonist named Othello started off conveying the emotion of happiness because he and his wife Desdemona were newlyweds. Othello was the general of the army of Venice. Iago, who was a soldier desired the rank of lieutenant, but Othello skipped over him and chose Cassio as the lieutenant even though Cassio had no experience in war but was exceptionally knowledgeable. Iago feels envious towards Cassio gaining the rank he wanted, Iago decided to work with Roderigo, a man who loves Desdemona, to pressure Brabantio, Desdemonas’ father, into thinking Othello used a “magic charm” to build up Desdemonas’ love for him. ("The Tragedy of Othello Written by Shakespeare” Book) In addition to Iago’s actions, Brabantio conveying anger approached Othello by accusing him instead of talking to him calmly. Brabantio told Desdemona of the rumor and asked: “who do you choose?” Meaning, she had to pick either her husband or her father. Desdemona projecting love towards her husband chose Othello. In conclusion to Desdemona's actions, it appeals to the reader that the female character represents

The tragic play Othello by William Shakespeare, discusses the relationship between Othello and Desdemona that begins as loving, but abruptly alters to a hateful relationship due to a lack of truth. Dishonesty and misunderstandings between Desdemona and Othello drive the collapse of their marriage as well as Iago’s deceitful words which force Othello to discredit Desdemona’s love. William Shakespeare portrays the fall of the relationship of Desdemona and Othello due to his ability of believing false delusions he hears about his wife and the reason for this is from his distrust for women, his jealousy and the fact that he truly lacks confidence in himself, leads him to doubt the love Desdemona has for him.