Long Way Gone Othello Literary Analysis

Thoughtout life a person will encounter many different types of evil, including, lust, greed, jealousy, and hate. All of these powers have the potential to be evenly destructive and cause huge amounts of harm to an individual or group of people. In literature the forces are talked and discussed and have inspired the following books Lord of The Flies, Long Way Gone, Othello. All of these books have characters that have one of these traits that make them do things that they would not do without them. In The Lord of the Flies a plane crashes and strands a group of boys on a island. The boys soon elect a their leader, Ralf. Ralf is controlling but always wants what's best for the community even though sometimes the community doesn't recognize it. Because of people not seeing that he is doing …show more content…
But he Evades them with a bombast circumstance Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war”(Act 1 scene 1) it shows how he is channeling his anger into Othello even though Othello does not deserve it. This is hate and it is what drove Ismael to do terrible things. In Othello, Othello is driven mad by his jealousy of Cassio. His jealousy is made by Iago who has a obsession with Othello and ruining his life. Because of this Othello slowly spirals out of control slowly brewing a hate for his onced loved wife and calling her “whore” and eventually ending her life. He did this because he was so wildly jealous that he couldn't even notice the facts right in front of him. He believed it so he looked hard enough to find something to support his argument. In Conclusion all these evils has the potential to be as bad as each other. Depending on the individual and his/her cause they become worse. Othellos evil was the worse because it ended his life in the sense that he couldn't think clearly and when he did it was about how his wife was cheating on him. And that he killed the person who loved him