Iago certifies this quote by never fully admitting to himself, why he was obsessed with Othello, to the point where he wanted to ruin his marriage that was built on love. Othello presents this quote by becoming extremely obsessed with his own flaws that he let his flaws take over his eyes and believed every word that Iago placed in his ear. Combining these separate characters, using psychoanalysis, all of these characters wanted to avoid a virtually inevitable fate, to the point where they made their own personas.
In Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is known as “a man of action, a man of war” (Achebe, 8) he was very different from his father because “unlike his father, he could stand the look of blood.” Okonkwo is constantly comparing himself to his father, and continuously trying to convince himself that he will never fall back to his father’s place, to become “lazy and improvident.” (Achebe, 3) To avoid this he does everything he can to show his village and all “other nine villages”(Achebe, 1), that he is the ultimate warrior, including “throwing Amalinze the Cat,” “who for seven years was