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Othello
In the play Othello written by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare shows the conflict of being a good lover and a good soldier that results in a union made in hell. Shakespeare explains negligible detail of Othello’s past life as a war hero. Othello’s love for war has forestalled him from living a normal life and having interaction with the ordinary people, who live normal lives. Othello’s failure to make the transition from a good soldier to an ordinary human being as a lover leads to a tragedy later on in the play.
Othello is a war hero as revealed in the earliest scenes in the play. The transition of Othello’s career as an honorable soldier affects his married life. “…I crave fit deposition for my wife, Due reference of place and exhibition, With such accommodation and besort as levels with her bleeding…”(Act I Scene III 234-238), Desdemona accompanies Othello to Cyprus for she is the fair warrior, and he is happiest when she is right beside him in the middle of military conflicts. Desdemona is unperturbed by the threats of their crossing as revealed in Act II, scene iii. The military puts Othello in a high position of the society of Venetian even as a moor. Even though the Venetians may be scared of the possibility that Othello’s entrance into the white society with the marriage of Desdemona. The people of Venetians merely respect him as a respectful and honorable war hero.
Othello asserts that his success in winning Desdemona makes him is more successful soldier. Othello seduced Desdemona through the process of telling stories of the war experiences he faced. He no longer has to prove his manhood and honor in public. The battle grounds where he fought in the past he feels strained in his own private battle ground, the bedroom with his wife Desdemona. Iago categorizes Othello as being unmanly because he is unable to take on the fight for keeping one of his warriors in control, Desdemona, upon himself as revealed in Act IV scene...