Love and hate make an interesting topic for literature all over the world throughout many generations. In the past, in term of love, people usually see many barriers of discrimination, racism, and biases. In William Shakespeare’s Othello, which was written in 1604, the themes of love, jealousy, race, gender, and envy are combined, and they raise issues that exist in many countries across the world. However, unlike the time of Othello, modern time starts to change and resolve those issues. Either some researcher find answers for these issues by scientific explanations or people change their thought that used to be in the time of Othello to have less prejudice and discrimination. In the time that Shakespeare wrote Othello, Juan Luis Vives with …show more content…
Indeed, when Othello suspects Desdemona’s infidelity, he experiences many of these symptoms. When Iago intentionally mentions about the relationship between Desdemona and Cassio, he sows a seed of jealousy in Othello, then he makes it grow by continuing lie and force Othello to question his wife’s infidelity. That makes Othello keep thinking and imaging his wife kiss, sleep, and make love with Cassio continuously. He even loses his ability to reasoning, and he blindly assumes that because Cassio has his wife’s handkerchief, his wife must have secret relationship with Cassio. In modern thought, Othello’s jealousy is diagnosed as a disease or pathologic jealousy. “The patients may gather evidence based on random events, bits of conversation, or misplaced household items to support their suspects” (Cipriani 468), so, in Othello’s case, the handkerchief makes an important role. Also, “morbid jealousy is responsible for a great number of crimes, especially violence towards the suspected partner, and also towards third parties mistakenly identified as the love rival” (Cipriani 469). Because of his jealousy, Othello murders his wife and also ask Iago to murder Cassio. Therefore, in modern time, people think of Othello as a person who has mental problem more than just a jealous man. However, no one can deny that Othello loves his wife deeply, so he gets extremely jealousy. How to cure jealousy? Modern time uses drugs and therapies, but at that time, the only cure that, they think, they can use is patience (Abcarian 1046). Who is responsible for this tragic drama, and what motivates