Importance Of Reputation In Othello

In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, the character Othello thinks reputation is important and he regards it likes a critic, even immortal, part of life; contrary, Iago thinks reputation cannot reflect a person’s real personality. Combine my real life experience, Iago’s opinion is more appropriate, because a lie can be true when it spreads, and the best way to find out how a person really is to get close to him or her. Reputation control people in some ways, because that’s a thing that others people give us, and it makes people lose their true oneself. After Cassio drunk and lose his position which in Othello’s mind, he is downcast and afraid of losing his reputation; "I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial" (Shakespeare. 3.2. 283-284) The reputation for Cassio considered as the immortal part of himself, which means prestige be with him a whole life, and he thinks the part …show more content…
Some people do not care a lot, but some people care a lot. There’s a girl that I know has a bad reputation. The words nice and the sunshine are people’s first impression of her, but after a period of time, peoples gradually find out she is scheming and she is good at sowing discord, so most people decide to step away from her, but in teachers’ memories, she has the best relationship to everyone. A person has a different reputation in different people’s mind. To judge a person’s personality from the reputation is not right, and the result will not be real. Reputation can implicate people. At sometimes, I want to try something that I think is cool, but the other people may think that’s weird or if I think peoples may judge me by that, I may give it up. Because of our fame, which means to get a good reputation, those things we give up may help us successfully. Nothing is definite, and anything may help us. Overall, it’s good to care about reputation, but it’s not the most important