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Theme Of Greed In Othello

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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
When the fantasies and needs of a person revolve into an obsession or an excess of greed, it will usually drive a person to do excessive and illogical things that they wouldn’t generally do. The greed often causes them to lose their sense of ethics, sense of self respect or possibly, even their life. In Shakespeare’s play, Othello loses control of his rational and reasonable thinking as he is anguished by taunting lies from Iago of his loved one cheating on him. Iago’s passion for authority and being in power caused him to lie and trick Othello into questioning his wife’s love. If Othello weren’t infatuated with his love for Desdemona his mind

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