The play, Othello, by William Shakespeare, portrays many key examples of human nature through the personalities of every character. What goes deeper into the complexity of human nature is Iago and Othello’s relationship which provokes each individual to truly express their inner selves and their true capabilities. For Iago it is expressing the nature of hate and revenge whereas for Othello it is the gradual change from a good natured man into a bad with the help of Iago’s wicked ways.
The deceitful relationship between Iago and Othello shows us how we as humans easily tend to let something as small as single emotion of jealousy provoke such an overblown and unreasonable revenge due to the deeper complexity of human nature. If worrying so …show more content…
“Iago is most honest.”or so that is what he has made Othello think. Gaining his trust with an eloquent and articulate speech. Iago has a way with his words and with how he uses them to manipulate his victims. Subtle and sly he catches onto Othello and uses his weakness of being too trustful against him. Othello seemed to believe everything Iago was saying because it wasn’t so straightforward therefore didn’t sound as unbelievable and ridiculous. “Jealousy feeds on itself,” so all Iago had to do was just suggest one single idea and Othello made up the rest supposedly himself, growing the idea and making it spiral out of control. Iago poured “pestilence into his ear,” meaning that through his eloquent words he had contaminated Othello's mind with the disease that is jealousy. Something so destructive that it will kill off everything that Othello was and will leave him suffering and consumed by this incurable disease. Its as if “that's he that was Othello,” wasn’t Othello anymore but a different person which Iago had made of him. From a fit, strong Moor, he had become crippled with the interrupting Desdemona's words with, “the handkerchief,” as he was too paranoid to listen to her and to speak any other words other phrase. This also shows the strong effect that Iago has had on Othello because when Iago speaks, he tends to use repetition lots to get his point across, so like “pestilence” he has spread his disease over to Othello. The jealousy which had grown inside Othello has become all he knew from Act 3 onwards, dominating his mind and becoming part of his nature. The relationship between Iago and Othello had contaminated all Othello stood for and had turned him into a beast by completely changing his nature. It seems like only the “devil” could do such a thing to a person which suggests Iago was something other
The deceitful relationship between Iago and Othello shows us how we as humans easily tend to let something as small as single emotion of jealousy provoke such an overblown and unreasonable revenge due to the deeper complexity of human nature. If worrying so …show more content…
“Iago is most honest.”or so that is what he has made Othello think. Gaining his trust with an eloquent and articulate speech. Iago has a way with his words and with how he uses them to manipulate his victims. Subtle and sly he catches onto Othello and uses his weakness of being too trustful against him. Othello seemed to believe everything Iago was saying because it wasn’t so straightforward therefore didn’t sound as unbelievable and ridiculous. “Jealousy feeds on itself,” so all Iago had to do was just suggest one single idea and Othello made up the rest supposedly himself, growing the idea and making it spiral out of control. Iago poured “pestilence into his ear,” meaning that through his eloquent words he had contaminated Othello's mind with the disease that is jealousy. Something so destructive that it will kill off everything that Othello was and will leave him suffering and consumed by this incurable disease. Its as if “that's he that was Othello,” wasn’t Othello anymore but a different person which Iago had made of him. From a fit, strong Moor, he had become crippled with the interrupting Desdemona's words with, “the handkerchief,” as he was too paranoid to listen to her and to speak any other words other phrase. This also shows the strong effect that Iago has had on Othello because when Iago speaks, he tends to use repetition lots to get his point across, so like “pestilence” he has spread his disease over to Othello. The jealousy which had grown inside Othello has become all he knew from Act 3 onwards, dominating his mind and becoming part of his nature. The relationship between Iago and Othello had contaminated all Othello stood for and had turned him into a beast by completely changing his nature. It seems like only the “devil” could do such a thing to a person which suggests Iago was something other