Othello Essay

In Shakespe ars Othello, we fit the protagonist Othello be deceived due to his openness of personality and credulity. When Iago estimates Othellos character as follows, The bind is of a free and open nature, / Those thinks men honest but expect to be so. / And will as tenderly be led by the nose/ As asses ar. (II. i. 387-90). We run across that it is this trait of his which strained his relationship with his erotic love Desdemona. The cracking tragedy of Shakespeare, Othello, starts with a marriage which was based on a very strong bond of love amidst Othello and Desdemona.From the early component of the play itself, it is evident that Othello has a slight feeling about his unfavorable position in terms of beauty and color. He substantiates this point by carnal knowledge that instead of loving him for what he is, She love me for the dangers I had passd, / And I loved her that she did pity them. (I. iii. 167-8) We see that throughout the play, Othello is a victim of his check jealousy and Iagos betrayal. This gives way to a change in position towards his lady love- Desdemona. As a result, Desdemona, once the whole world of Othello, became his just about loved enemy who happened to die by his own hands.Hence we cornerstone see that love in their relation reaches the highest point that even the lovers life is at the disposition of her better half. That too as a victim of suspicious loyalty Desdemona is believed by him to be immersed in an affair with his certain(p) lieutenant, Cassio. To take advantage of the grains of skepticism in the head of Othello about Desdemona, Iago sets the stage through her handkerchief. Othello is convinced by Iago that his fears about Desdemonas disloyalty towards him are beyond doubt by promising that he dictum Desdemonas handkerchief with Cassio By Heaven, that should be my handkerchief (IV. . 147).It is here that we get the most evident proof of Othello towards his wife as the love for his wife is well convey ed by making it clear that he can non bear to live knowing that his wife has become a whore, Aye, allow her rot, and perish, and be damned tonight, for she shall not live. (IV. i. 168). Thus a man, who was hailed for his royal lineage, his acquisition for adventure, his most efficient soldiership, his openness of nature and credulity, his modesty, and dignity stoops to the level of a murderer without any second thoughts.He did so because he loved his wife so dearly so that whether he lived or died, whether he maintained his reputation or not, nothing was of importance to him compared to his love for Desdemona. hither their relationship turns out to be ironic for it is difficult for a universal man to think that one would murder someone for intense undefiled love. On the other hand, we see Desdemona forgetting her very self out of her restrained love and devotion for Othello.She idolized him, as she says I saw Othellos visage in his mind/ And to his honours and his valiant par ts/ Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate. (I. iii. 251-3). When she was charged with infidelity, and that her husband could not have done anything much unkind, she could only protest His unkindness may defeat my life,/ But never taint my love. (IV. ii. 159-61). Her tactlessness that springs from her purity and innocence was what brought about her death. If she had imbibed the worldly maxims, which Emilia dispensed, she king have averted the disaster. She made a capital blunder in sweet herself to solicit for Cassio. She had not the remotest idea that her action big businessman be misinterpreted. She did not realize it even at the visible displeasure of her lord.A cleaning lady of the world would have taken the hint, and pressed no more Cassios suit. Iago, in spite of himself, meant but the simple truth when he said, She is of so free, so kind, so ordered a disposition, she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested. (II. iii. 298-9). Not till the br eak moment did the truth break upon her mind that she had compromised herself by pleading for Cassio. It is the simple mindedness and purity of Othello and Desdemona, in all means that is exploited by Iago, who was trusted to the utmost by both, especially Othello. Othellos life was al slipway lived by faith, instead of right.Moreover, he was a man whose nature was aflame and high, free-hearted in thought and ready in action. He considered all that is sagacious and devious as dishonor, and as Desdemona understood about him, jealousy and suspicion was foreign to his nature. His life was always identified with his absolute trust in Desdemona. But when a person who was too honest to him throughout and a good friend full of experience, honor, devotion and delicacy to him, exhorted too vehemently that Desdemona is not at all honest to him and that she is having a very passionate love affair with Cassio, his innocence and purity forces him to believe it.Desdemona too is a victim to th e darker shades of finer feelings like innocence, purity and simplicity. She is a backer who always stood firm for love, be it to her father or her husband. She firmly believes that at that place is nothing in this world that cannot be recovered by confessedly love. Her answer concerning the fatal handkerchief, It is not lost but what an if it were? (II. iv. 79) shows she, most pathetically and with a childlike innocence, endeavors to uphold the truth of her relation to her husband.If she had tried to resolve to the accusation she was in, with harsh words, her angelic stature in the minds of those who loved her might have faltered. A close reading of the play substantiates the fact that Othello and Desdemona are the two most innocent people that ever existed. At firstly their relationship is romantic to the utmost but it takes a profane pervade in guide of time due to the lack of a absolute foundation for a relationship, by race, color, temper and character and hence we see an absence of trust, understanding and communication amidst the two. For Othello, the word battle is of best importance as he was a perfect soldier.We see him revealing about himself Rude am I in my speech, / And little blessd with the soft phrase of peace / For since these arms of mine had sevener years pith, / Till now some nine moons wasted, they have usd/ Their dearest action in the tented field/ And little of this great world can I speak/ More than pertains to feats of broils and battle. (I. iii. 81-7). In sharp contrast to this, we have Desdemona who is totally inexperienced in the ways of the world. It is Othellos war stories that infatuate her.Once she identifies his virility and manliness, she is taken aback with a mad love towards him. But it should be debated whether that is a solid state base on which a relation should be reinforced on. We see that though she speaks so fondly about him, her understanding about his nature is minimum. She defends her newly born love fo r Othello, in the following words, (among other things), My out-and-out(a) violence, and storm of fortunes, / May trumpet to the world. My hearts subdud / flat to the very quality of my lord. / I saw Othellos visage in his mind, / soul and fortune consecrate. (I. iii 248-253)Hence the whole play shows forth that it is innocence and purity that laid foundation to the failure of the relation between Othello and Desdemona who was renowned for the purity of love between them crossing all the barriers that were built by man. These good qualities, undoubtedly, turned fatal in their all encompass love. We find Anthony Trollopes chick Anna an apt sequel to the relationship presented between Othello and Desdemona. In the above-said novel we have Daniel Thwaite, a tailor and his lover, later wife, Lady Anna, who belongs to the aristocracy. There too we have Frederic instead of Cassio.In both these kit and caboodle we see that the people with whom the ladies are accused of having an ill egitimate relation are far better and appropriate than their present spouses. This instills a feeling of inferiority in both the men and that is what takes the garb of jealousy and in course of time their intense love to their better halves become too cutting and lead them to much graver mistakes. Trollope, no doubt had Shakespeares Othello in mind, while he was drawing his caricatures of Lady Anna, Thwaite and Frederic to make them sequels to Desdemona, Othello and Cassio respectively.