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Good And Bad Decisions In Shakespeare's Othello

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Decisions, Decisions
The choices that people make can be seen in an evil or good nature way, just like everyday people. Even Shakespeare knew this and wanted to add this theme to his plays. In Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, Othello was our hero. Every hero has flaws that lead to their undoing. Othello’s poor decision making was caused by his flaws. His tragic flaws include: making poor judgments, irrational decisions, and his insecurity. These reasons are his downfall. Shakespeare starts off with Othello making poor decisions from the start of the play. Othello made a bad choice by running off at night to marry a woman he didn’t truly know. Thoughtout the whole play Othello was making bad judgements. The worst one he made was trusting Iago with such little to go on. Othello watched in act 4 scene 1 where Iago was talking to Cassio as a great friend, trying to get Cassio to “talk” about the affair with Desdemona. If Iago can break a best friend bond why wouldn’t he lie to …show more content…

The down side to this is that he is impulsive in major life decisions, an example would be getting married to a woman that fell in love with him because she felt pity for him. Othello stated that Desdemona only fell in love with him for his lonely and depressing life. Othello said, “She loved me for the dangers I had past, / And I loved her that she did pity them.” Whiling explains how Desdemona fell in love with him (1.3.166-7). Another irrational decision he acted hastily upon was to kill his wife so soon after he thought she was having an affair. Othello didn’t really think about his decisions before he made them. He just acts upon his emotions, which is effective during a battle. When someone is driven by emotions that person has made themselves a time bomb, soon that time bomb will go off. Othello timer went off in the wrong place with the wrong

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