In his attempt to understand the world and to find himself, Othello self destructs. In Shakespeare’s work, The Tragedy of Othello, Othello undergoes several changes throughout his life. Before he met Desdemona, he was a cruel and brutal general. Othello’s world was a competition in order to obtain the position that he currently has. After getting married to Desdemona, she became his calm. In his mind, Desdemona was the one. If anything happened to her, Othello would regress back into his old, barbaric ways as seen in the lines, “…when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.” After Iago plants the seeds of doubt within Othello’s mind, his (Othello’s) view on Desdemona changes. Whenever he looks at her appearance, he sees someone so pure and innocent, someone whom he loves and cherishes. However, he “knows” that she is instead, a strumpet. Othello can not cope with human relations. He struggles with his perceptions of reality and, in the end, these misperceptions result in death.
The significance in the difference between Othello’s view on Desdemona and his…show more content… He is overwhelmed by his surroundings and falls into an epileptic seizure. He no longer has control and he loses himself. Even as he was readying himself to kill Desdemona, Othello hesitated. He endures the bitter pain of killing his sweet Desdemona because his rage is just that strong. He has that much faith in what he “knows.” After the chaos of the discovery of Iago’s crime, Othello is crushed. He requests that they speak of him as he is. Othello wants people to remember the service that he had done for the state but, at the same time, he refers to himself as a “…malignant and a turbaned Turk…” This is surprising due to the fact that the Turks were enemies. He wants to be remembered for his service and yet he sees himself as an enemy to Venice. He recognizes that he was never truly a part of the Venetian society and that, in all this time, he was just an
