Othello 2

• I feel sympathy towards all the characters except Iago. I feel the most sorrow for Othello, because of all the people Iago manipulated, it was worse with him. He instilled suspicion, jealousy, anger, and in the end grief into Othello. He drove him mad untill he destroyed the people he most loved and eventually his own life too. Ealier in the play Othello said that he would have rather not known about Desdemona’s affairs and continued living with the love he knew. Othello being the man he is had to kill Cassio and Desdemona so he planned to do so. On top of the grief of knowing that his wife has been cheating, Othello finds out, after he strangled Desdemona, that his whole love rage was false. In the end, he couldn’t live with so much grief and dishonor, so he took his life. I could not imagine going through all of that, thinking that you are doing the right thing, and then finding out that it was all a lie. The natural reactino to a play like this is to be angry ith Iago for setting everything up the way he did. However, he too was plagued by his emotions. Iago was filled with hatred toward so many people, and that alone had to be hard to live with. His anger and jealousy caused him to set Othello, Cassio, Roderigo, and Desdemona up. I do feel pity for Desdemona and Cassio; more so for Desdemona because she dies. In the end, Casio lost his reputation, honor, job, and endured a stab wound. Desdemona had to deal with the pressure of accusation, and those accusation brought upon her death. I can think of events similar to this, though not as extreme, but I would rather not blog about it.