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THE LOVE Story IN Othello
Course: Critical Thinking, Literature (ENGL G110)
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THE LOVE STORY IN OTHELLO
Othello by William Shakespeare is nothing but a tragic story. Shakespeare uses this story
to tell his readers that love yields and attracts negativity (Archer, Culpeper & Rayson, p. 5). This
can be seen from the relationship between Desdemona and her father, Lago and Cassio as well as
Othello and Desdemona. Love is a potential prey of evil and more often than not, when love falls
prey to evil, the repercussions are always non-desirable. Shakespeare in this story of Othello uses
diction and metaphor to demonstrate to his readers the dark and dangerous side of love which
most people turn a blind eye to in hope for the popularized benefits. In fact, Shakespeare through
this story, depicts marriage and love to be a curse; one which is imposed through the disguised
‘witchcraft’ of love (Bevington, p. 229). This paper purposes to discuss love in Othello as source
and catalyst of evil as provided by William Shakespeare.
The love story of Othello in the William’s text is immediately founded on negativity. The
story is predominantly based on the fact that Lago, who was Othello’s pennant, is jealous and
unhappy of the fact that Othello chose to promote Cassio to be his lieutenant instead of him.
Lago decides to avenge this self-imposed offense and the only love in the story becomes the
weapon for avenge. With this plot, William was actually providing an alternative perspective, an
ignored perspective, of what love is in the society. Love continues to be used as a weapon even
in the modern society (Archer, Culpeper & Rayson, p. 7). For this reason, the love story of
Othello confirms that love is dangerous, as much as it may also be a source of goodness.
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