Plenty of relationship get confused between love and lust especially when people are being deceived. In Othello, William Shakespeare's recurring references to love/lust show the complication of love through Iago’s deception and Shakespeare’s belief of the destructive nature of lust.
One person who gets confused between love and lust is Roderigo. Roderigo pays Iago to help get Desdemona, which Iago uses as part of his deception.. At this time Roderigo does not realize that he isn’t in love with Desdemona. Roderigo just thinks that he loves her because Desdemona has been the only girl in his life. Roderigo says,“What should I do? I confess it is my shame/ to be so fond, but it is not in my virtue to amend it,” (I.iii.312-313). Roderigo confesses to Iago that he shouldn’t love Desdemona but he really does. On the other hand Othello shows love for Desdemona when he says, “If after every …show more content…
Othello starts to realize that Desdemona is a whore and that she is unfaithful to Othello, at least according to Iago’s words. Othello says to Iago, “What sense had I of her stol’n hours of lust?/I saw’t not, thought it not, it harmed not me,” (III.iii.335-340). After talking with him about Cassio and Desdemona. Then, Cassio and Iago are talking about Bianca when Othello thinks that they are talking about Desdemona. “She was here even now; she haunts me in every/ place. I was the other day talking on the sea bank/ with the Venetians, and thither comes the/ bauble, and falls me thus about my neck” (IV.i.133-136). Shakespeare uses the deception Iago creates to ensure that lust is destructive nature of it. If we didn’t have lust relationship would be based on love. Throughout the play, Iago’s deception starts to take over Othello’s thoughts. Othello has loved Desdemona and continues to love Desdemona. Othello says to Desdemona’s sleeping body: “Yet I’ll not shed her blood,
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than
One person who gets confused between love and lust is Roderigo. Roderigo pays Iago to help get Desdemona, which Iago uses as part of his deception.. At this time Roderigo does not realize that he isn’t in love with Desdemona. Roderigo just thinks that he loves her because Desdemona has been the only girl in his life. Roderigo says,“What should I do? I confess it is my shame/ to be so fond, but it is not in my virtue to amend it,” (I.iii.312-313). Roderigo confesses to Iago that he shouldn’t love Desdemona but he really does. On the other hand Othello shows love for Desdemona when he says, “If after every …show more content…
Othello starts to realize that Desdemona is a whore and that she is unfaithful to Othello, at least according to Iago’s words. Othello says to Iago, “What sense had I of her stol’n hours of lust?/I saw’t not, thought it not, it harmed not me,” (III.iii.335-340). After talking with him about Cassio and Desdemona. Then, Cassio and Iago are talking about Bianca when Othello thinks that they are talking about Desdemona. “She was here even now; she haunts me in every/ place. I was the other day talking on the sea bank/ with the Venetians, and thither comes the/ bauble, and falls me thus about my neck” (IV.i.133-136). Shakespeare uses the deception Iago creates to ensure that lust is destructive nature of it. If we didn’t have lust relationship would be based on love. Throughout the play, Iago’s deception starts to take over Othello’s thoughts. Othello has loved Desdemona and continues to love Desdemona. Othello says to Desdemona’s sleeping body: “Yet I’ll not shed her blood,
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than