Othello

A Moorish general in service to Venice, well-praised for his honesty, integrity and outstanding military skills. He secretly weds the fair Desdemona. When his jealousy is piqued by Iago's deception, it overtakes him and his entire world collapses.

Wednesday 28 March 2012

I Was Wrong. Goodbye

"Soft you; a word or two before you go.
I have done the state some service and they know't:
No more of that. I pray you, in your letters
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak
Of one that lov'd not wisely, but too well;
Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought,
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinable gum. Set you down this;
And say besides that in Aleppo once
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by th'throat  the circumcised dog
And smote him thus"
Othello
Act 5 ii. 334-52

Tuesday 27 March 2012

Jealousy


             Thy Iago, oh honest Iago. How I should have known you were too good to be true. Jealousy was with you from the moment I gave Cassio Lieutenant instead of thy. Oh jealousy be thy cause of chaos. You planned to ruin all that was well. If only I would have known. I would have planned a way to keep order. "O beware, my lord, of jealousy: It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on" Ha! Tis not I who is jealous, it was you. The green-eyed monster you spoke of, was clearly yourself. My sweet, sweet Desdemona would still be alive if it were not for your jealousy and scheming. I let your lies take over me. I trusted what you were saying, and became jealous myself. Oh I am no better than thee. I got taken away from what was right and didn't realize it until everything was gone. Oh monstrous fate! 
Iago to Othello
Act 3 iii. 167-8