Othello
Imagine living a perfect life. A life where everywhere you look, success has blessed your path. Your career is at the top of its game, you just married the women of your dreams, and by achieving all this you have gone against all rules of your society. You are what they call the minority of the town, the person who is laughed at and joked about. The person who is looked down upon in the world, a former slave turned general. However all of this means nothing, because you have esteemed to be a living legend on the battlefield, married the senators daughter, and are now ready to start a new and happy life. What happens when somebody puts a different pair of sunglasses on your face? When your lenses are changed from optimistic rose colored to evil, judgmental jet black, you see the world from a totally different perspective. It becomes a place where you are not blessed with success, but plagued with worry, hate, and skepticism. In Shakespeare's Othello, Iago changes Othello's perfect existence into a world where he believes he is the victim and not the great and powerful general. In the play it is not Othello's stupidity that makes his mind go astray, but his life in a world where he is ignorant of how things work is what makes him the evil follower he became.
In the first part, Othello possesses a sense of pride in himself and what he has accomplished in life. He is a man whom no one would think to second guess or confront issues such as his wife cheating on him, because the fear of severe repercussions such an act would cause. Othello shows extreme amounts of confidence when first arriving at Cyprus:
Come, let us to the castle.
News friends! Our wars are done, the
Turks are drowned.
How does my old acquaintance of this
Isle?
Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus,
I have found great love amongst them.
O my sweet,
I prattle out of fashion , and I dote...
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