Bad Communication In Othello Essay

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Many of the faults these days result from bad communication, this issue traces back a long time and is even proven in Shakespeare’s writing. In “Othello”, it is easy to see that bad communication can and does make a situation much worse than it should be, as is proven when Othello has bad communication with Iago, Desdemona, and the proof is clear in the way the final aftermath turns out; this way, it is learned the idea that communication is a very powerful tool in the everyday life. Good Communication is one of the most crucial methods when speaking with others. For example; Othello communicates to Iago about Desdemona many times, asking to give him reasons why she could be disloyal. However, if Othello instead asked Desdemona to prove her loyalty herself, situations that occurred may have had turned out very differently …show more content…

When Othello tragically kills his beloved Desdemona, Emilia is the first to find out adding that, “thou art rash as fire to say/ that she was false. O, she was heavenly true!” (5.2.165-166). She explained to Othello that Desdemona has always been loyal, and later she even implied that Othello should not believe everything he hears. After Othello’s fears that Desdemona was loyal and did not deserve to die became true, Othello cries, “O Desdemon! Dead, Desdemon! Dead! O, O!” (5.2.332). Othello finally realized his mistakes and automatically regrets believing Iago. He learns what he has done wrong and asks that when there are letters written about him, to write that he was one who “loved not wisely, but too well/ of one not easily jealous, but being wrought/ perplexed in the extreme; one of whose hand/ like the base Judean, threw a pearl away/ Richer than all his tribe” (5.2.404-408). This is how Othello asks to be remembered because he knows he was wrong and that the situation could have been better, but it became too

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