Love equals War, Othello’s Indecision in Shakespeare “Othello”
In Shakespeare’s “Othello”, the main character Othello experiences some relationship issues with his wife despond when Iago begins to make Othello suspicious that Desdemona is having a affair .This conjecture infuriates Othello so much that the true violent side is revealed. Throughout Act 3 Othello becomes increasingly violent and the correlations between how he treats love and war begin to resemble on another strongly. In the selected passage, in act 3 scene 3, it is a turning point for which he decides the only way to resolve this situation is to kill both Desdemona and Cassio. His tendency to treat love and war equally in the passage is demonstrated by the word choice, the …show more content…
Once Othello begins to believe that Cassio betrayed him he ignored all positive feelings and filled with hatred and anger. Near the end of the passage Othello exiles love and will now only accept hate: “Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne/To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,” (3.3 506-507). Othello orders love to get out of his heart and he wants it to “swell” with hate and hostility. This concept of commanding something to leaves relates back to Othello treating love like war, which he has full control and can demand anything to happen and it will. In war betrayal is a normal and constantly occurring thing, so by Cassio supposedly betraying him, his only instinct was to react like he would during a war like situation. Othello believes he has control over his emotions and wants to rid of all the feelings of love and begin to hate both Cassio and Desdemona so he would have the rage to kill. Once again his demeanor to treat love and his feelings is portraying by his acceptance of …show more content…
In the passage the syllables varied but if looked at closer a prominent pattern emerges. The syllable pattern is 10,11,10,11,2,11,10,11,5. The breaks occur in the middle and at the very end of the passage, these changes represent the ending of one idea and the introduction of another. In the first break the line is: “ 'Tis gone.” (3.3.506). Othello is talking about his love, so his love is changing and the new idea of war and violence is introduced in the next line. Another example of this is the very last line, which wraps up Othello ideas : “ For 'tis of aspics ' tongues!”. Othello believes his heart is full of poisonous snakes and as a result of despond supposedly sleeping with Cassio and the only way he can cure this is by killing both Desdemona and Cassio. This idea correlates with both the earlier evidence which Othello continuously replaces relationships with war and love with hate. These two syllable breaks were the only occurred in the passage and broke the pattern and also symbolized a change in ideas and decisions being
In Shakespeare’s “Othello”, the main character Othello experiences some relationship issues with his wife despond when Iago begins to make Othello suspicious that Desdemona is having a affair .This conjecture infuriates Othello so much that the true violent side is revealed. Throughout Act 3 Othello becomes increasingly violent and the correlations between how he treats love and war begin to resemble on another strongly. In the selected passage, in act 3 scene 3, it is a turning point for which he decides the only way to resolve this situation is to kill both Desdemona and Cassio. His tendency to treat love and war equally in the passage is demonstrated by the word choice, the …show more content…
Once Othello begins to believe that Cassio betrayed him he ignored all positive feelings and filled with hatred and anger. Near the end of the passage Othello exiles love and will now only accept hate: “Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne/To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,” (3.3 506-507). Othello orders love to get out of his heart and he wants it to “swell” with hate and hostility. This concept of commanding something to leaves relates back to Othello treating love like war, which he has full control and can demand anything to happen and it will. In war betrayal is a normal and constantly occurring thing, so by Cassio supposedly betraying him, his only instinct was to react like he would during a war like situation. Othello believes he has control over his emotions and wants to rid of all the feelings of love and begin to hate both Cassio and Desdemona so he would have the rage to kill. Once again his demeanor to treat love and his feelings is portraying by his acceptance of …show more content…
In the passage the syllables varied but if looked at closer a prominent pattern emerges. The syllable pattern is 10,11,10,11,2,11,10,11,5. The breaks occur in the middle and at the very end of the passage, these changes represent the ending of one idea and the introduction of another. In the first break the line is: “ 'Tis gone.” (3.3.506). Othello is talking about his love, so his love is changing and the new idea of war and violence is introduced in the next line. Another example of this is the very last line, which wraps up Othello ideas : “ For 'tis of aspics ' tongues!”. Othello believes his heart is full of poisonous snakes and as a result of despond supposedly sleeping with Cassio and the only way he can cure this is by killing both Desdemona and Cassio. This idea correlates with both the earlier evidence which Othello continuously replaces relationships with war and love with hate. These two syllable breaks were the only occurred in the passage and broke the pattern and also symbolized a change in ideas and decisions being