Evil And Dark Desires Of The Subconscious

A delicate balance of chaos and order exists in our lives; the balance maintains itself by the very acts of human nature. In the drama Othello, the battle between good and evil creates the basic root of human nature as a whole. While at first, order exists in the lives of the Othello and Iago, through dramatic events and manipulation, the balance becomes unstable and starts to shift into chaos. Once the chaos has started, it continues a chain that continues along until the very end where the balance finally restores itself as it would in human nature. Through the inter and intra personal dialogue between Othello and Iago, a certain image of the character becomes developed because of the continued additions and changes to the character’s

Shakespeare’s Othello explores the destructive nature of Iago’s villainy through his ability to confuse appearance with reality through his deception and trickery. In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago is a scheming antagonist whose goal is to destroy Othello. Iago uses foreshadowing when he says, “I am not what I am.” Iago tells the audience that his loyalty with Othello is all a scheme to destroy him, and his

Othello starts the play as a respected and honorable general that has won the respect of the Duke, Brabantio, and Desdemona. However, Iago exposes his personal flaws of jealousy and being too trusting, which lead to murder and his own death. Iago has always been well respected and trustworthy throughout his life, nonetheless he uses his sneaky ability to conduct his plan and not be seen. To carry out his plan Iago must manipulate key characters, among them are Othello, Cassio and Roderigo. Othello showcases the characteristics of a tragedy because it displays the fall of the major character and does not end with a happy

Evil appears through the menacing Iago and his devilish undertakings in Shakespeare’s Othello. Perceived as a sociopath, Iago antagonizes and fuels conflict. Through an interpretation by Ralph Berry, the literary critic identifies a “fairly clear-cut pattern of good and evil that can be closely identified with the three main personages: that is, of evil, personified in Iago, struggling in the soul of Othello for possession of the goo, Desdemona” (3). The conflict throughout the story is fueled by the good versus evil narrative. Firstly, evil shows its presence when Iago manipulates Othello into thinking his love, Desdemona, cheated on him. In response to Iago’s insinuation Othello speaks, “Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw/the smallest

Once a seed of suspicion or doubt is planted in a person’s mind, the noxious effect of jealousy is soon to ensue. Jealousy and suspicion are Othello’s flaws hubris throughout the play and foreshadow to the audience his imminent downfall. He believes what Iago tells him so strongly that he compromises his close relationship with his best friend and his love for his wife. Iago manipulates Othello through the use of extortion, literary techniques, and his keen judge of character. His syntax and diction are so simple yet so powerful because he uses the correct rhetorical questions and addresses Othello with respectful terms such as “my lord.” He allows Othello do most of the talking

“Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win,” said by Stephen King, maybe not all the monsters humanity likes to envision are living under our bed but has it came to consideration that they live inside of us decoding in between what is good and evil can be difficult for plenty of individuals along with figuring out on whether it's inside us or not, but some if lucky may sense the division. In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, a play about a woman named Desdemona and a man named Othello happily married but soon their marriage is soon poisoned by envy, the man that had tainted the relationship with another man and jealousy was none other than a man

William Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ is one of the most emotionally fraught and psychologically intense of all of Shakespeare’s tragedies. The deeply psychological ideas it explores such as the nature of narcissism and psychopathy become a concentrated concoction of jealousy, hatred, insecurity, rage and repressed sexual desires within their isolated setting on the Island of Cyprus. When one applies a psychoanalytic lens to the play the internal workings of the human mind bubble to the surface with an intensity that is difficult to ignore. This is best expressed by analyzing the characters of Othello, a clear example of a narcissist and Iago, an id driven psychopath, and the way in which the two influence and psychologically feed off each other.

While reading Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago’s actions, thoughts and overall psyche showed clear signs of psychopathic qualities. This lead me to believe that his “motives” were meaningless justifications for his actions, they were merely rationalisations for those he’s deceived, only used as tools to do so. He commits to his plans and deceptions through his love of the power he can hold over those he manipulates, and when he does succeed in what he set out to do, the evil disposition of Iago’s character comes to fruition. The critical essays by, Fred West, David Stempel, and works by Samuel Coleridge contain a great deal of insight into the mind of Iago, giving both in-depth analysis and a clear understanding of why he set out to commit the atrocities

different point of view. To effectively manipulate one must know the weakness of the targeted person. Therefore, using their emotions to enable the manipulation easily. Othello is a tragedy, written by William Shakespeare in the seventeenth century. The play by William Shakespeare includes the character of Iago. Iago is the antagonist in Othello, who cleverly plans out his tactics. Viewing the character of Iago from an analytical point of view shows Iago exposing himself to be a psychopath. Iago can use the weakness of the characters to set up scenes, and earns himself the title “The Honest Iago.” Consequently, psychopaths act as pleasurable people, but in reality, they are different in private. A psychopath sees themselves as preferable and worthy of the respect of others. The complex character of Iago sees himself as being superior to Cassio and is inclined to seek vengeance on Cassio and Othello. The character of Cassio is similar to Othello since they both appear to be impeccable. In Othello, the complex character of “Honest Iago” creates a psychotropic weapon by using the vulnerability of the character’s emotional state to create the perfect tactics.

Through the expanse of the play Othello, the themes of jealousy , betrayal and guilt have played a prominent role in both character development and the drive of the story. The dramatic events within act 5 scene 2 aid in concluding the narrative with a rather unfortunate ending. When analysing Othello’s character before and after his misguided deed within the act, there is a definite change in both his tone and manner in general. Originally Othello is seen as an understanding and noble gentleman. However, the actions Iago took to deliberately hurt the moor earlier in the play, left him emotionally wounded. Within act 5, and even more prominently scene 2 , we as the audience can finally see the detrimental effects of Iago’s ill intention had to Othello as a character. Once Othello smothers Desdemona as a result of, it is evident taht Othello’s character shatter and break down emotionally, by his guilt and betrayal that has brought him to a slow draw to madness.

Othello is almost certainly the most tragic, heart-crushing play Shakespeare ever wrote. This tragedy leads the helpless audience on an emotional plummet as they watch the emotional and psychological manipulation of the antagonist, Iago, lead the play. Iago weaves his web of deceit and plays with the strings of all the characters in one great puppet show. At the end of the play, the audience is left with a longing for something more and a feeling of despair. Language and manipulation are two very main parts of this play with great symbolism to color and light woven in. Unlike all of Shakespeare’s other tragedies, there is no comedic relief, just a tragic plummet. One of the reasons this despair seems so raw is because, in the end, evil prevails, justice is not served, and there is no hero, there is only silence. In a play led mainly by language, there is an eeriness and incompleteness to this silent ending. The life of the main character, Othello, spirals downwards under Iago’s

Putting forth a powerful statement about human nature, Othello is a play showcasing deception, suspected infidelity, and murder. Its controversial themes of race relations, gender expectations, racism, betrayal, manipulation and jealousy impact the way we see the modern world, simply because these themes continue to retain their relevance even today. Throughout the play, there are appearing irregularities in Iago’s behaviour, which are understood only through the duality in Shakespeare’s character. Iago possesses in abundance the quality of duplicity, yet he claims to have a reputation for honesty and plain speaking. The real Iago- hateful, villainous, sly, and bitter only reveals his ability to disassemble and destroy lives through his soliloquies,

Student: Nicolas Berkopec Book: Othello Author: William Shakespeare Published: 1622 Genre: Tragedy Othello is a masterfully written tragedy about how Othello, the main character, tragically falls to madness and how has his life is torn apart by a most nefarious of villains, Iago. Othello is a psychological narrative in many ways. This short play is home to one of the most evil villains ever written, his name is Iago and his insanity is the key to this story. Othello begins with Iago stating how much he hates Othello because he wasn't promoted to lieutenant.

Othello is a classic of the universal literature, where human relations show a constant fight between good and evil. From the opening of the play, Shakespeare, in addition to racial and gender aspects, makes continuous religious allegory. From the stories told in the Bible and the events reported by Shakespeare can be compared to the history of destruction of life Othello with Christ, as a result of evil desires and envy. In Othello, Iago is the main driver of the action, with their manipulations makes the characters to where he wants, merciless and unscrupulous. Iago may be related to Satan, because their actions are for the purpose of self-interest, with perversion and harm to others. Shakespeare makes one of his first allusions to the perversion

The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice is William Shakespeare’s play, written around sixteen hundreds. The Tragedy of Othello is not just a story of jealousy; this is a tragedy of the clash of two worlds. One of them is a world of absolute cynic, manipulate or Iago; the second world is the world of all the other characters in the tragedy, including, possibly, even Othello. Even though both of the main male characters, Iago and Othello, are murderers, they have different types of characters, cause different feelings and deserve different attitudes. Shakespeare makes it clear at once at the first appearance of Iago, that he is a villain with his philosophy. Philosophy is not crafty in its core as well as in its shape. “I follow him to serve my turn upon him” (I ,i, 42) – that is the remarkable thesis which Iago pursues consistently and without bare deviation from the course chosen once and for all (Michele 2007). Iago and Othello are different in terms of human nature and similar in terms of their insecurities. I believe that Iago and Othello are forced into situations because of their individual circumstances.