The Development of Othello's Character in William Shakespeare's Play

Othello was a great leader in the battlefield, but that never transpired in his social life as he couldn’t take the lead in his relations. He had frequent suspicions about his spouse and close associates. In the play “Othello” written by Shakespeare, Othello is the main character who goes through many phases during the play. Othello is mainly influenced by Iago but he causes his own downfall as the tragic hero. Othello plays a role of a commander in the army and marries Desdemona in the process of making Cassio his general. Throughout the play, he suspects everyone around him and creates unusual thoughts in his head. Examining Othello’s behavior in the play, he can

determine as to which one will win, so that is why one cannot exist without the other. However, there are some whose emotions are unbalanced, which causes them to near towards one side more than the other one ­­ and many times the side a lot of people prefer to lean on is evil. Shakespeare’s play O​thello​is set in 16th­century Venice and Cyprus. Othello, a noble black general from the Venetian army has secretly married Desdemona, daughter of Venice senator Brabantio. Othello chooses inexperienced Cassio to be his lieutenant, while he decides to give the ensign position to Iago, a malicious but very experienced man who, with his stealth and knavery, will ultimately ruin almost everyone’s life since for a long time, he was desiring the position of lieutenant just like Cassio. At the end of the play, Othello, Desdemona, Iago’s wife Emilia, and his sidekick Roderigo die due to his revenge against Cassio, for obtaining the position he wanted and Othello, for being the man who he hates the most. The play ends with Iago being told that he will be punished and tortured for his actions. However, despite the fact that Iago is punished at the end of the play for doing all of the malicious things he did, he still manages to wear down Othello’s relationship with Desdemona, get Cassio demoted from his lieutenancy, and cause Othello to show his cowardness by

By the middle of the play Othello’s mood and demeanor seem to shift from being peaceful and patient to very anxious, paranoid, and gullible. For example when Othello is talking to Iago and Iago suggests that maybe his wife is not being faithful to him, it becomes Othello’s obsession to get down to the bottom of it and catch her. “I have been talking with your suitor here, a man that languishes in your displeasure / Who is’t you mean / Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord” (III.iii.41-43). In this dialog between Othello and Iago, with just two sentences Iago causes Othello to lose trust in his wife and believe she is being unfaithful to him which grows stronger and stronger each scene of the play. Because Iago is extremely cunning and manipulative, he is able to control almost anyone he chooses and he is in control of Othello’s emotions because he knows the things Othello fears. Iago is pretending to be Othello’s friend but secretively is going behind his back and bringing him down. Iago convinces Othello that Cassio is having an affair with Desdemona. “I humbly do beseech

The amount of torture presented in the play Othello opens up the discussions of how deep does this torture go. Was Othello the only one to be tortured throughout the play and what kind of torture is this considered when Iago doesn’t touch a single person until the end of the play. Iago’s behind the scenes and not so behind the scene multiplication moves the play along at a pace that makes it impossible not to place on the blame on him. The question is not if he is at fault by the end of the play; the question ends up being how many deaths brought on by a psychological torture caused by Iago is actually his fault.

The opera Othello was written by Verdi, one of the most prominent opera writers in the late 1800’s. He was born in 1813 in northern Italy, however, most of his work took place in Milan, Italy. This is where, on February 5th of 1887, Othello was first performed, at the Teatro alla Scala (Stanford). Verdi’s opera Othello is based off of Shakespeare’s play Othello, which was written in 1622. Verdi based many of his operas off of Shakespeare’s plays, such as his opera ­­Macbeth that was based on the play Macbeth, first performed in 1847, and his opera Falstaff, based on the play The Merry Wives of Windsor, first performed in 1893. In Othello, a black Moor general has just returned from a

Othello, was written and published in 1622 by William Shakespeare, one of the greatest writers known in English time. Othello is the story of love, backstabbing, and power. Othello, a general in Venice, comes into conflict with himself and many others during the war between the Turks and Venice. However, at the time Venice was the center for buying and trading , which led to disruption and conflict arising from greed, social status and competition among soldiers. Among the multiple of intertied themes in Othello, The primary theme of Othello is the power of self-destruction caused by the struggles of self and jealousy, because of Othello’s, insecurities, narcissistic behavior.

Othello values Iago’s opinion so much that he regards him as “Honest Iago”, but all along he was his worst enemy. For example, when the fight Iago sets into motion through Roderigo breaks out and word gets back to Othello that Cassio was fighting, he trusts Iago to tell him the truth about the situation. Iago falsely accuses Cassio of being drunk all the time, starting the fight, and he also pretends to be saddened to tell Othello of Cassio’s “misfortunes.” The audience knows he is lying but Othello falls for Iago’s act anyway, believing him to be honorable. Dramatic irony played in the favor of Iago because he knew of all the lies he was telling to the other characters, however the characters themselves assumed them to be

"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

In the end, Othello’s anger and mistrust, fuelled by Iago’s lies, leads to Othello’s tragic demise.

Mind control can be used to manipulate a person’s behavior through a psychological process, such as a process known as Classical Conditioning. Mind manipulation has been presented by villains throughout movies, novels, and even plays. The play Othello, written around 1603 by William Shakespeare, with the villain character Iago, is characterized as a jealous, hubris, sinister, crafty, and manipulative being. William Shakespeare has managed to write a tragic play where he used Iago’s malicious words to provide early Classical Conditioning, to cloud Othello’s mind of critical thoughts, turning him into a jealous zombie; this shows that Iago would go to any means necessary, whether it was murder or manipulation, to achieve his goal.

William Shakespeare’s play, ‘Othello’ is a tragedy that tells of love, jealousy, revenge and eventual deaths. The play sets into motion with an upset Iago telling Roderigo about his disgruntlement with his commander’s, Othello, decision to promote Cassio to lieutenancy over Iago. Iago first plots to stop Othello’s engagement to Desdemona but the plot fails. He plots another revenge plan in which he provokes a fight between Cassio and Rodrigo leading to Cassio’s demotion off his rank for misconduct. Iago further leads Othello into believing that Desdemona is unfaithful. Othello is persuaded of Desdemona’s infidelity when he sees Bianca, Cassio’s wife; with the handkerchief that he had given Desdemona. An enraged and jealous Othello confronts his wife accusing her of infidelity and eventually strangles her to death. Later, Othello commits suicide after realizing that Iago deceitfully made him kill his wife.

"Othello is set in a world and focuses on the passions and personalities of its major figures." (Thomas). Othello is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, Othello's wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio and advisor Iago. The play appeared in seven editors between 1622 and 1705. The themes of the story are racism, love, jealousy, and betrayal. Othello is a black soldier who is accused of stealing his wife Desdemona. Although Desdemona's father dislikes his daughter's choice, Desdemona loves Othello very much and the two are married. Othello’s right hand man is angered at the fact that Othello picked a man named Cassio to be more important than him and he also feels that he is messing with his wife. Iago plans to manipulate Othello but his plan eventually causes more hurt to most of the characters. Iago tries to use the meeting between Cassio and Desdemona as a way to make Othello believe she was cheating on him. Iago goes on with his manipulative plan by planting a handkerchief in Cassio's room, and goes and tell Othello about what he has seen Cassio do. Othello becomes jealous throughout the story and begins to believe that Cassio is talking to his wife. Iago persuades Othello to come up with a master plan to kill Cassio and Desdemona. As Othello tries to kill Desdemona, Emilia, Iago's wife, comes in to tell Othello the truth about Iago. Unfortunately it is too late. Othello had already suffocated her. When Othello

The Development of the Character of Othello as Shown by his Use of Language and Imagery in William Shakespeare's Play

Cassio, I love thee but never more be officer of mine”. (Act 2 scene iii) It shows that Iago was able to get revenge on Michael Cassio too. Because he sets up all the plans and get him fired from the military post. When Othello saw Cassio fighting despite of being on senior post of military, he was so pissed at him. Iago got chance to be closer to Othello. Although Iago was not given Cassio’s post, but he was able to make Othello to fire Cassio from his post. He used Roderigo to get in to fight in to Cassio as he planned Cassio to make him drunk known that Cassio could not hold more liquor. Iago was mad over Othello over promoting Cassio instead of him and also mad with Cassio because he gets promoted and he was younger than Iago and Iago thought him as a junior soldier. As Iago plans about getting Roderigo and Cassio to get in fight, he is successful in his plans and Making Othello to fire Cassio, so Iago was able to get revenge on Cassio at that moment.

First of all, the setting of Othello greatly contributes to the dramatic storyline. In a modern soap, the circumstances force the characters to face each other. For example, the characters usually form an intimate group, like a family or close group of friends. In real life they would have