Did Othello get what he deserved?

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Shakespeare’s Othello is a character who is thrown around throughout the play by the cruel-minded Iago. One would make a judgement about whether Othello did get what he deserved by analysing the relationship between Othello and Iago.

But firstly, we must see all the things going against Othello. Othello is an African black man living in Venice. Unfortunately for Othello, this means he is faced with a lot of racial slurs and judgements. Throughout the text, Othello is constantly referred to with beastial imagery and names that relate to his skin colour. For example, the first person to describe him to us is Iago in the lines “an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.” This gives us a very ugly first image of Othello, which is completely wrong, after we find out that he is actually a very loyal man who deserves to be seen as more than what Iago explains him to be.

Also, the reason why Iago choose to sabotage Othello’s relationship with his new wife, Desdemona is because Iago thinks that Othello has slept with his wife, Emilia, without having any proof of this, and also because Othello gave the job that Iago was waiting to be promoted to Cassio, another Venetian man. This shows how unfair the targeting of Othello to be sabotaged was. These facts about the play tell us that Othello was targeted unjustly.

The way Shakespeare writes Othello as being a noble and loyal man to those people of greater status in Venice such as the Senator, Brabantio, but is played by the strings of Iago, a standard class Venetian citizen. This shows how out of control Othello was of the whole situation that unfolds with Iago.

Iago begins to tell Othello things that make Othello finally become doubtful of his wife’s faithfulness. He makes him believe that she has been sleeping with Cassio. Some would argue whether Othello should have listened to him or not.
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