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Nigel Dollentas Mrs. Heakes-Enderson 4 December 2018 English 1102 Like in many other plays by Shakespeare, the theme of love runs deep through the play of Othello. Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummers Night Dream highlight an impossible love, a love that goes against family or political lines. Julius Caesar showcased a brotherly love between Cassius and Brutus. While Othello also shows love, complimenting this primary repeating theme is jealousy and betrayal, traits that mainly Iago embody but can also be seen through the actions and interactions of other characters later on in the play. Othello shows viewers what happens to a beautiful thing, love, when it becomes contaminated with ambition and pride. The combination of the three emotions of jealousy, betrayal, and love help Shakespeare show a different side of love in Othello. Jealousy is one of the first emotions that Othello with Iago expressing “in personal suit to make me his lieutenant.” (Othello, Shakespeare). From this point, Iago plans his takeover by sowing seeds of discord between Desdemona, Othello, and Roderigo to take the position from Cassio. Iago even implements his own wife Emilia to help aid in his plan for the position as well as both Othello and Desdemona’s eventual death. While Othello even describes himself being “of one not easily jealous”, this was said in direct contradiction to his act of murdering his own wife out of jealousy (Othello, 5.2.395). Pointing all the blame on Iago would be sufficient for some people, the While “genetic determinism and social determinism”

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