Iago Love Othello Essay

In the play Othello (1603) by William Shakespeare, love and hate are two most critical far-reaching themes expressed throughout the play. There is no doubt that whether Othello loves Desdemona during the initial parts of the play and hence they get married. Then as the play progresses, Iago, the villain in the play manipulates Othello, by gaining his trust and injects him with the poisonous seeds of hate and jealousy. Thus, the great love between the couple fades away as hatred, jealously and revenge takes over Othello – which only ends after he murders his wife. Iago’s character was very diabolical from the very beginning of the play and it can be analyzed that Iago’s motivation for wrecking Othello’s happiness and his life arises solely from hatred. But, the real question that we need to focus, is that on whether Iago loved Othello at the same time? Can Iago’s evil actions be compromised if he wished that if he couldn’t be with Othello; Othello shouldn’t be with anyone - even if it included destroying

As for Othello, he is just conniving Cassio’s murder with Iago. Moreover, Othello is unaware of Iago’s real motive. Besides, he is unresponsive of Iago’s homosexual attraction for him. In the play, there is another instance of proving Iago to be homosexual, when Iago says that he heard Cassio talking in his sleep about how he loved Desdemona, as if Cassio and Iago were sleeping together in the same bed [3.3. 414 - 426]. This is questionable as Iago wasn’t even sleeping with Cassio, but he doesn’t bother saying it, so as to convince Othello about his wife’s infidelity. Iago probably would have been explaining one of his wildest dreams, that he was sleeping together with Cassio, which is evident that he had a homosexual