The themes of jealousy, love and occur constantly in both plays. The themes create the driving power behind most of the action in the plays. In both A Midsummer
Night’s Dream and Othello, the nature of love is communicated in two different ways. The first way is that love is a random, irrational, and blind power that individuals will risk everything to hold onto. The second interpretation is that love is an illusion; it is not everlasting or unstoppable. These two interpretations of the nature of love are very similar in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and in Othello. The key act shows the resemblances between the two dramas on the opinions of love as being sightless and influential is when Desdemona (Othello’s soon to be wife) defies her father …show more content…
“I love the gentle Desdemona, I would not my unhoused free condition put into circumscription and confine for the sea's worth." Othello (1.2.27-28). In both plays, the characters are eager to make sacrifices for their love of their life. In Othello, love develops into an illusion to Othello after Iago (the antagonist) has established the seed of jealousy in his mind. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it acquired the prying of the fairies to disrupt Lysander and Hermia's love. In Othello, Iago is the powerful force. It is clear that Iago have confidence in that love is an illusion and it can be altered with. He uses this opinion to create a wedge between Desdemona and Othello by providing Othello with deep jealousy. Iago's speech in Othello (2.3.345-356), shows that Iago identifies that he can crack the gullible Moor in contrast to the women he supposedly loves. If love were really blind and an obligatory force then Iago would never have capable of swaying Othello from his trust in Desdemona. His jealousy over taking his wife's integrity and his own betrayal is more significant to himself than his love for Desdemona. In Othello (5.2.1-3), Othello has selected himself as a
Night’s Dream and Othello, the nature of love is communicated in two different ways. The first way is that love is a random, irrational, and blind power that individuals will risk everything to hold onto. The second interpretation is that love is an illusion; it is not everlasting or unstoppable. These two interpretations of the nature of love are very similar in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and in Othello. The key act shows the resemblances between the two dramas on the opinions of love as being sightless and influential is when Desdemona (Othello’s soon to be wife) defies her father …show more content…
“I love the gentle Desdemona, I would not my unhoused free condition put into circumscription and confine for the sea's worth." Othello (1.2.27-28). In both plays, the characters are eager to make sacrifices for their love of their life. In Othello, love develops into an illusion to Othello after Iago (the antagonist) has established the seed of jealousy in his mind. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it acquired the prying of the fairies to disrupt Lysander and Hermia's love. In Othello, Iago is the powerful force. It is clear that Iago have confidence in that love is an illusion and it can be altered with. He uses this opinion to create a wedge between Desdemona and Othello by providing Othello with deep jealousy. Iago's speech in Othello (2.3.345-356), shows that Iago identifies that he can crack the gullible Moor in contrast to the women he supposedly loves. If love were really blind and an obligatory force then Iago would never have capable of swaying Othello from his trust in Desdemona. His jealousy over taking his wife's integrity and his own betrayal is more significant to himself than his love for Desdemona. In Othello (5.2.1-3), Othello has selected himself as a