What makes a good person good or a bad person bad? The answer lies on the intentions of how emotionally inclined a person is at the time. People are driven to make crucial decisions based on emotions or prior bias toward a certain event or people in general. Happiness and joy leads to more methodical and level headed decisions being made, but those with anger or spiteful intentions will lunge on the opportunity to make hasty decisions that could lead to more extremes outcomes. Literature has shown that leaders have flaws and are exploited through the manipulation of the old heartstrings to be pushed to outrageous results. The character of a leaders that are in emotional turmoil become irrational by changing their morality, becoming paranoid,
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If, however, the leader is emotionally compromised and put to the test of being in charge of the nation, then how will his or her morality be changed? In William Shakespeare’s Othello, Othello the Moor shows to have emotional struggles within him and coops by changing his moral values of trust and authority to those of spite and jealousy. This ties in with the real world and Shakespeare saw this when he wrote Othello because absolute power corrupts absolutely, and this would hold true to other leaders that would come into the future such as Louis XIV, who with his tight fisted morals landed the nation of France into revolution nearly 150 years after Othello. The theme of leaders with fallen morality is clearly one of Othello’s lesser themes and would be follow suit with the idea of leader’s emotions leading to …show more content…
A leader may not be the one who experiences paranoia, but rather uses paranoia to achieve the objective of violence or harm to others. In Shakespeare’s Othello, Othello states “For she shall not live. No, my heart is turned to stone. I strike it, and it hurts my hand,”( 4.1.201-202) this quote confirms that the paranoia and sentimental rollercoaster Iago has put Othello on has taken its toll and has transformed Othello into a tyrannical and irrational Moor out to kill Desdemona and Cassio for their “unfaithfulness” which has brought upon by the emotions stirring in Othello. An example of this in the real life is George W. Bush and the terrorist attack of 9/11, approximately 400 years after Shakespeare wrote Othello, and how Bush used the emotions of fear and paranoia of the American public to achieve his agenda of violence and hostility toward the Middle Eastern and a fool’s war against nations of Iraq and
If, however, the leader is emotionally compromised and put to the test of being in charge of the nation, then how will his or her morality be changed? In William Shakespeare’s Othello, Othello the Moor shows to have emotional struggles within him and coops by changing his moral values of trust and authority to those of spite and jealousy. This ties in with the real world and Shakespeare saw this when he wrote Othello because absolute power corrupts absolutely, and this would hold true to other leaders that would come into the future such as Louis XIV, who with his tight fisted morals landed the nation of France into revolution nearly 150 years after Othello. The theme of leaders with fallen morality is clearly one of Othello’s lesser themes and would be follow suit with the idea of leader’s emotions leading to …show more content…
A leader may not be the one who experiences paranoia, but rather uses paranoia to achieve the objective of violence or harm to others. In Shakespeare’s Othello, Othello states “For she shall not live. No, my heart is turned to stone. I strike it, and it hurts my hand,”( 4.1.201-202) this quote confirms that the paranoia and sentimental rollercoaster Iago has put Othello on has taken its toll and has transformed Othello into a tyrannical and irrational Moor out to kill Desdemona and Cassio for their “unfaithfulness” which has brought upon by the emotions stirring in Othello. An example of this in the real life is George W. Bush and the terrorist attack of 9/11, approximately 400 years after Shakespeare wrote Othello, and how Bush used the emotions of fear and paranoia of the American public to achieve his agenda of violence and hostility toward the Middle Eastern and a fool’s war against nations of Iraq and