Anthony+Garcia

__** Love, Hate, and Jealousy are three highly important factors in the book //Othello// written by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare tends to have situations such as life and hate and mistrust, revolve upon his stories from the first page of his book. Othello’s love for Desdemona soon becomes tainted with lies as he searches for what is truth and fiction. Iago is the reason most of the problems occur. He is mischievous and unfaithful, even to his own girlfriend. But this is what makes the play. Throughout the play many rumors were spread such as: how Desdemona cheated on Othello the Moor with Cassio, Othello’s newly appointed Lieutenant. Most rumors lead back to one person and that’s the main dilemma in the play. Iago tends to lead people to believe he’s some sort of great person hence his nickname “Honest Iago” given upon him from, Othello the Moor. After a fight between Rodriego and Cassio, Iago tells Othello, “I have rather this tongue cut from my mouth/ then it should do offense to Michael Cassio" (2.3.236-237).In this quote Iago describe how he would rather cut out his own tongue then speak a lie about or to Cassio. Othello is possibly the most gullible person to Iago. Every word Iago speaks goes through and is seen as an almighty honest answer. Othello is the type of person whose trust is gained way too easily and in one case was gained by the wrong person. Desdemona proved her love and trust for Othello through their relationship. “That I did love the Moor to live with him, my downright violence and storm of fortunes May trumpet to the world. My heart’s subdued” (1.3.243-245). She wants Othello to be part of her life and she wants to be part of his. When she said that line to the Duke and her father Barbantio everyone had seen the love was true. In Iago’s case it is the opposite story. Iago is the type to get into your mind, and put you in some other world. The thing about this world is that he contains what is going around. All the thoughts you think and hear are him. “If I would times expend with such a snipe, But for my sport and profit, I hate the Moor” (1.3.322-323). Here you can see that he knows he has Othello’s trust but he uses it for something else such as plotting against him to help Rodriego. Rodriego is jealous that Othello the Moor could gain the love of a woman such as Desdemona. In this book, you can see the true thought of jealousy. Jealousy is seen as part of how you tend to dislike one or many people for something you can not obtain. In this case that would be Cassio's place as general. Iago has an in depth thought of how he, himself deserved the place as general and was highly disappointed in how he did not receive it. The one thing has lead it issues such has setting up Cassio as if him and Desdemona were having an affair, and making the father Brabantio go to desperate levels to achieve the goal of hindering Othello. Rodriego and Iago both go through the main stage of jealousy. The stage is influenced by mainly deceit and lies but in some cases also mischief and suicide. “It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.” (1.3.296-297). Roderigo sees the situation as if he won’t ever gain something to his benefit. He thinks that if he won’t be able to have Desdemona, there is no reason for him to live. Love also has an almighty role in this play since jealousy is mainly caused by love for someone such as Rodriego. Throughout every page you see how love isn't always followed by faith. Faith as in trust though. The faith in one another is one of greater value and able destroy and everything in its path. But why weren’t Othello and Desdemona able to overcome problems their love held? It was because of all the lies giving to Othello from Iago and Rodrigo. It’s as if Iago knows he can’t have something fair so he does whatever he can to get it in his reach. It’s just that he doesn’t know how to act. Othello’s love is true for Desdemona especially in the beginning of the play. He calmly fights his argument with Barbantio and the Duke to realize who he is and where his and her love lies. “She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. She swore, in faith, ’twas strange, ’twas passing strange,” (1.3.161-163) Desdemona soon comes in and is highly descriptive on how Othello was able to woo him and make her fall for him. She was their only true form of love for Othello. He told her his story. From being sold as a child to the rest of his hardships he faced growing up in Venice. He told her how it was going from a slave to someone of high stature. It wasn’t easy as his description was it took hard work and much time. Othello is there for Desdemona through all times in the book the main cause for this trouble towards the end is his pain. It’s so dreadful and horrible. He goes on each and everyday with pain. When he kills Desdemona I think that is where most of his pain comes from. “Blow me about in winds, roast me in sulfur, Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire! — Oh, Desdemona! Desdemona ! Dead ! Oh ! Oh!” (5.2.593-595). He realizes that he made a mistake and that his life can never be the same without her by his side. He won’t be known as the great Othello or the happy Othello, just a person in the world. Othello lets his love for the love of his life, Desdemona become tainted. He didn’t let this occur do to will, he let it happen do to lies. He fell for what he had seen and heard from Iago. If it wasn’t for Iago it would be some completely different story. The ending would have consisted of him and Desdemona having a happy ending. All he had to do was come and talk to Desdemona, instead of going off to Iago and others for advice. He needed to make decisions on his own but he couldn’t, he was afraid of the choice he made could have been the wrong one. That was possibly been his main down fall. The way he listened to everyone else was completely incorrect. He should have been looking through a clear window, instead of looking through a musky and foggy window. That could have made everything for him much simpler not only would it have lead to less stress but it could have also lead to less pain caused from mistake he’s made. He went and murdered his wife. The one person the one girl he loved the one person whom was completely truthful to him. She had been their when he was telling the story to woo her. And when he had been bought to the duke to see if he was lying to Barbantio, she was their. She had saved him through the good and the bad. She was the one person who could understand every emotion he had and every emotion he could have had.
 * Anthony Garcia**
 * 12th Grade English – Period 2**
 * December 14, 2009**
 * __The Truth between the Three