Shakespeare's Othello, The Moor Of Venice

Othello, the Moor of Venice The story of Othello, the Moor of Venice was written by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare got the idea of Othello from a writer by the name of Giraldi Cinthio. The original story, was entitled,” Of Unfaithfulness of Husbands and Wives.” In the original story Disdemona was beaten to death with a stocking full of sand, which is quite a bit different from Shakespeare’s Othello, tragedy still befalls Desdemona. (Gioia, 2017) The story was believed to have been written in 1603-1604 and published in 1622. (Bevington, (n.d)) This story would not be a story without noting that William Shakespeare was the most famous writer in all of English literature. His plays are still being performed four hundred years after his death. (EMC/ Paradigm Publishing, 2005) The story starts out with a conversation between Roderigo and Iago. Roderigo is a gentleman, as well as ,the man who has been courting the beloved …show more content…
Here was a guy who was in great power. He lived in a castle. Had a great many friends, and a beautiful wife. However, the downfall of Othello was he trusted Iago way too much. He was weak minded. He did not trust his wife enough when she said she was faithful to him. This sent off a chain reaction of tragedy throughout the castle. Iago was basically the puppet -master behind the entire plan. He played on weak minded individual like Roderigo who was in love with Desdemona and would do anything if he thought it would be good for him. Iago is the word evil because he planned the whole thing. He played on Emilia’s emotions because she was to listen to her husband. He convinced her to steal from her friend. Iago was a liar and was only trying to advance his own agenda. Othello was too blind to see what was really happening, and in the end everything fell apart. Desdemona was dead and so was Othello. That is the part Iago did not plan on. Cassio lived! (Gioia,