Loss Of Othello's Relationship

Marriage is a part of life that most people look forward to. Once people get married their whole life is devoted to each other. Married couples are supposed to work through their problems and support each other. In William Shakespeare’s play Othello, he suggests otherwise. Both Desdemona and Emilia were killed by their husbands. The only girl left at the end of the play is Bianca, a prostitute. Marriage, while generally a positive concept, is fatal and dangerous in William Shakespeare’s play Othello.

Desdemona is demanding that Othello forgive Cassio for his drunken mistake and reinstate him as lieutenant again. Knowing how much Othello loves her, Desdemona uses her power over Othello to help out Cassio. Unfortunately, this backfires; only convincing Othello further that she is having an affair with him.

Othello is a frank and straightforward, honorable people. He believed that life is good, and society is fair; he treat people with sincerity, and believed that he can be received with honor. He wholeheartedly loves Desdemona, his own honor and dignity of all their faith in the awful happy marriage. Yet just at this time Igon told him that Desdemona has affair with its own honorable lieutenant Cassio, he was overwhelmed by this sudden blow, psychology began to lose balance, Othello caught in the pain and contradiction, a moment that Desdemona is chastity, and the next minute

Desdemona is portrayed as a very inquisitive women, whom loves to explore the things and people outside of her class. She fell in love with Othello because of her curious nature and being attracted to his acts of bravado. Her intentions are sincere; however her curiosity in this act is seen as folly. She asks her cousin Lodovico about his arrival and informs him of Cassio’s dismissal. This angers Othello as she is praising another man, taking a persona of being proactive about him. For Othello this concludes that she is disobedient and has dishonored him - to put her in place, he resorts to violence:

adultery. Because of this, she should have known that Othello might perceive her meetings with Cassio as suspicious. She should have also realized that not only were her secret meetings with Cassio obvious, but she exacerbated the problem by constantly bringing up conversations with Othello about reinstating his former lieutenant to his old position. She bothers Othello about the issue very frequently and persists even when she could tell that her husband was getting more irritated at the subject by the second. Could she really be that naïve? Desdemona should have considered the possibilities

However strong the emotional attitude of prejudices may be in Othello, Love is the most powerful emotion and ironically the emotion that leads to the most vulnerability. Loves of all kinds are tested in the tragedy and ultimately all fail to rectify the horrible situation. Marital love for Othello and Desdemona serve as both a heaven and a hell on earth. As Othello portrays by saying,

Oh the flaws that bind us. I will be looking at The Tragedy of Othello written by William Shakespeare. Othello's tragic flaws are not extraordinary, actually they're very common. But in my opinion the flaws that did him in were being too trusting and naive. I will examine the repercussions that were produced because of what many would call minor character flaws. The proceeding essay will dissect and look at some of the most glaring defects that Othello had which led to his and his wife's demise. This play truly makes you want to yell at Othello and say, "come on man, watch out"!

Almost all people, at some point in their lives, have experienced jealousy. But almost all people are given an equal opportunity to overcome this most unbecoming quality. In William Shakespeare’s Othello, however, this fatal flaw developed by the play’s main protagonist, Othello, is not easily subdued. Instead, Iago, the catalyst for Othello’s jealousy, manipulates him into believing that his wife, Desdemona, is having an affair with his lieutenant, Cassio, transforming Othello from respected general to reviled outsider. Iago achieves this desired effect by fabricating a web of illusions that not only mislead the Moor, but turn him against those whom he loves the most.

While Desdemona often expresses her love of Othello and her dedication to “His honors and his valiant parts,” it is obvious that Othello does not truly love Desdemona (1.3.288). The first reason that shows that Othello does not indeed love Desdemona is that he does not completely trust her. After Iago tells Othello that he believes Cassio and Desdemona are in love, Othello immediately decides that this must be the truth, and vows to “tear her all to pieces” (3.3.490). This quote displays the fact that Othello’s trust for Desdemona is as fragile as eggshells are in an earthquake. Several times throughout the book, his own unsupported ideas completely overrule anything Desdemona could say.

Othello is certainly an overlay of the features that define tragedy as explained by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Eagleton. Hence, to say that the play is Hegelian does not necessarily mean it is not Aristotelian. While Aristotle focused on tragedy Hegel focused on the tragic. Both features of tragedy and the tragic are to a great extent available in the Shakespearean tragedy of Othello. Hegel’s theory on the tragic helps us to a great extent analyze the tragic conflict in this play. He focuses on the tragic vis-à-vis tragedy. And for me, Hegel is the best whom can we depend upon analyzing Shakespeare’s Othello. Not only that but also he uses other supportive techniques of increasing the tragic conflict. Hegel, neither judges nor indicates

When one watches a play, they are catching a glimpse into the characters lives. They are catching a narrow window of their existence. They do not know where they came from, what kind of experiences they have had, or what may have influenced them over the course of their lives. The central protagonist of Othello is none other than Othello himself, a man whose background ultimately shape and dictate his life during the play.

The basis of any relationship is trust and it seems as if Othello has no trust for Desdemona as he believes someone who he didn’t even trust enough to become his lieutenant. There is also no understanding or communication in their relationship. Without even asking Desdemona directly about the allegations which are being made against her, Othello attempts to just carry on with his assumptions. It can be suggested that the pair do not even know each other and their romantic, passionate love is more of a profane love. Othello says “Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be damn’d tonight, for she shall not live.”

Shakespeare shows the readers and viewers of the play, The Tragedy of Othello, an impression on what love really is and how it can have different meanings to different people. Love takes many different forms and can change over time. There are many different examples of love that is seen throughout this play, there is Othello and Desdemona, Emilia and Desdemona, Emilia and Iago, and Michael Cassio is in love with Desdemona. Love plays a large role in this play, it is what brings the characters together but it is also what kills them in the end.

The tragedy “Othello” by William Shakespeare causes the reader to critically think about the downfall of a highly honored soldier named Othello. Othello is a Moor, which means that he is from North Africa. At the beginning of the play, he is a very noble and kind man, but by the end, he becomes a person filled with jealousy and anger that he is no longer the same. Every reader of the play has different thoughts about who led Othello to his downfall, but in reality, Othello is at fault. The other characters just took part in Othello’s collapse through their actions and words, but in the end, Othello is the one that killed Desdemona and then himself. Othello is responsible for himself and his actions; therefore he is responsible for his downfall.

Shakespeare is very well known for his inclusion of tragic flaws throughout the storylines of his novels. Hero’s, as courageous as they may seem, are just like any other person and go through flaws throughout their lifetime regardless of the extent of their situation. In Shakespeare’s novel Othello, with all the events twisting the readers mind from one side to another, there are many distinct qualities that portray Othello’s tragic flaw. Iago was portrayed as an honest character but with his careful deceptions jabbing in Othello’s mind, he is far from honest. Othello’s tragic flaw is that he trusts others opinions more than his own perceptions and Shakespeare develops this flaw by using convincing persuasive appeals and strong syntax throughout