Tough Love In Shakespeare's Othello

Tough Love
Passion is a word that connects with romantic events such as true love or a marriage. It speaks of a wonderful love that seems endless, however, that is not completely correct. Passion means a “strong and barely controllable emotion” and it does not always associated with love.
The most notable example of this is in Shakespeare's Othello were Iago’s false claims of Othello’s wife having an affair transform Othello from a strong soldier to a hate filled monster. Throughout the play, Shakespeare uses Othello’s passionate feelings toward his wife reveals Othello’s facade.
The beginning sets the characters and their personalities for the readers, especially Othello as the responsible and powerful military leader who appears to not be scared of anything due to his tragic past that he was “sold to slavery” and had to see “Cannibals that each others eat” (1.3.13) Othello’s strong and leadership appearance masks the fear and paranoia of the clear prejudice around him because of his skin. Why else was it easy to stick the false images in Othello’s head? Because of this his love to the white Desdemona creates a secure blanket of being accepted, which as a result causes his passion for her to become possessive since she is his ‘key to success’. At the beginning of the novel …show more content…
As his passion for ‘righting the wrong’ of Desdemona grows, so does the imagery of carnage and blood. Toward the end before the bloodbath, Othello states “Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted/Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted” (5.1.78). This rhythm of the images with Othello losing control primary shows how strong such passions can be. His controlling, obsessive passion of Desdemona reflects such powers he wished upon others, to rid the sense he will never be accepted. This and Iago’s words are what his passions and paranoia feeds off

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