William Shakespeare’s drama Othello is one of his greatest works. Man vs. Self is a big concept in this drama. The characters are constantly fighting with mental health so deeply that most of them may compromise their own morality and lose themselves completely throughout the play. The four main aspects of Othello are the irony in it, the soliloquies, the hyperboles, and the foreshadowing.
Shakespeare used a lot of irony in his drama Othello to make his plays theatrical and dramatic. Everything in this drama ties into something that will later happen in the storyline. One example of this is in Act 1, Scene 3 “It’s silly to live when life is torture.
The only cure is death.”. Shakespeare ironically said this in Act 1 to symbolize how
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Before Othello kills himself we can infer that he has become suicidal when he says “death is happiness”(Shakespeare, Act 5). Every one of these characters suffers from some type of mental illness but I think Othello and Iago suffer from mental illness the most in this
Lambo 2 drama. Othello suffers from extreme jealousy, known now as Othello’s syndrome. In the
National Library of Medicine, Eur J Neurol defines Othello’s syndrome as “the delusion of infidelity of a significant other, which is sometimes used interchangeably with delusional or morbid jealousy.”. Iago suffers from borderline personality disorder, he’s very impulsive and doesn’t have any real relationships. Shakespeare never really reveals Iago on the inside which leaves us to imagine why he’s so manipulative and conniving. In Act 2, Scene 3 Iago says “I’d rather cut my tongue out of my mouth than say anything bad about Michael Cassio.”. This was said dramatically, ironically because we as the readers know that Iago is just telling lies and he doesn’t actually care about
Cassio. As the reader we see how conniving Shakespeare made Iago, however, the characters don’t know this. “People should be what they appear to be. If they’re