How Does Othello Change Throughout The Play
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock / The meat it feeds on” (3.3.165-168). Many men are greatly influenced by their emotions, which includes the green-eyed monster itself: jealousy. In Shakespeare’s play Othello, Iago’s words and actions cause Othello to change and to stop loving Desdemona; as a result, Othello and the people around him plunge into chaos. After much manipulation from Iago, Othello, like a coin, flips sides and hates Desdemona. When Desdemona leaves with Emilia, Othello says that “when I love thee [Desdemona] not, / Chaos is come again” (3.3.91-92). This clearly shows that Othello is in love with Desdemona and has no doubt in her faithfulness. Little does Othello
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Just before Othello strangles Desdemona, he says, “Put out the light, and then put out the light” (5.2.7). Othello, completely changed, has chosen the path of killing his lover, and nobody, not even Desdemona, can do anything to stop him. Unlike the light of the torch that he holds, Othello cannot reignite the light of Desdemona. Differently, when Othello learns that Iago lied to him, Othello states: “I look down towards his feet—but that’s a fable. / If that thou be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee” (5.2.287-288). Othello realizes the mistake he made and the man who caused it. Othello, filled with the same rage that he used to kill Desdemona, tries to kill Iago. As a result, when Othello reflects on what he has done, he says, “Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away” (5.2.348). In this biblical reference, Othello compares himself to Judas Iscariot. Like Judas, Othello betrayed the person who loved him. Furthermore, after Othello stabs himself and approaches the bed where he killed Desdemona, Othello utters “I kissed thee ere I killed thee. Now way but this, / Killing myself, to die upon a kiss” (5.2.359-360). Though Othello may be joining Desdemona in death, Othello will not join Desdemona in the afterlife. Instead, he will reunite with his best friend, the
Just before Othello strangles Desdemona, he says, “Put out the light, and then put out the light” (5.2.7). Othello, completely changed, has chosen the path of killing his lover, and nobody, not even Desdemona, can do anything to stop him. Unlike the light of the torch that he holds, Othello cannot reignite the light of Desdemona. Differently, when Othello learns that Iago lied to him, Othello states: “I look down towards his feet—but that’s a fable. / If that thou be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee” (5.2.287-288). Othello realizes the mistake he made and the man who caused it. Othello, filled with the same rage that he used to kill Desdemona, tries to kill Iago. As a result, when Othello reflects on what he has done, he says, “Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away” (5.2.348). In this biblical reference, Othello compares himself to Judas Iscariot. Like Judas, Othello betrayed the person who loved him. Furthermore, after Othello stabs himself and approaches the bed where he killed Desdemona, Othello utters “I kissed thee ere I killed thee. Now way but this, / Killing myself, to die upon a kiss” (5.2.359-360). Though Othello may be joining Desdemona in death, Othello will not join Desdemona in the afterlife. Instead, he will reunite with his best friend, the