Othello/ Good vs Evil Essay

Life in general is often used as a system of ways to lay what kind of person you are by its end. Shakespeare takes that theory into test upon his characters in his work of the famous play Othello. by dint of the verbal twists and turns along with the addition of color symbolisms, the personalities of Othello, Iago, Desdemona are revealed to their fullest extents, along with their stimulate balance of earnest and evil within. When this is realized by this famous Shakespearean work, the judgment of good and evil is carried place, and as a result of freshet purging of emotions, neither prevails in the resolution.Othello, due to his Moorish nature further at the same time morally snowy and untainted, can be considered grey with the opening of the play, solely when possesses the potential to become either the near brilliant white or the darkest black. From the way that he is described by Iago and sometimes Brabantio, he is a dark beast lurking in the shadows, but he is as white as he can be by the Duke. Grey is a color non quite white nor black, hesitation and confusion wavering behind his eyes.This confusion is caused by his naiveness at trusting people too easily, and Iago eagerly takes this weakness to his advantage. So that when Iago manipulates Othello, Othello unknowingly gives in to the temptation, heretofore going as far as telling Iago I am bound to thee for ever so (III. iii. 242). Othello at this request is completely taken in with Iagos mind poisoning and leadingly submits to him, yielding to his trickeries. Inevitably with a little push from Iago, Othello slowly goes good deal the path of dark and pure blackness, with capital punishment evident in mind.With Iagos tampering of his inner moralities, Othello turns black equal a speeding snowball, at virtuoso time Iago set him on the right path. Everything else Othello had done the damage himself Iago only suggested the feel in the most subtle of ways. Thus he sometimes breaks surface to savage madness as Iago put it, when being put chthonian such pressure (IV. i. 65). He is so far gone(p) that he even has epileptic fits hearing of Desdemonas infidelity. Othello turned out to be evil when he became so mad that he extended his men to Desdemonas neck and smothered her to death with a pillow.Only aft(prenominal) he bug outs her he realizes too late that Desdemona is innocent from the start, and has been shining ever since, and only the darkness has clouded his vision and perception of her tempting him to devour her. The fact that he has succumbed to that temptation shows how the good in him has lost its difference of opinion to the evil corruptions of Iago, even though he made some visionary struggles against them. Othello has given in towards evil because of his weakness and his judgment is heightened by his murder of his wife Desdemona.Even though at the end he seems ruthful towards the deeds that he has done, he still lost, and decides to end his suffer ings by offering his final defeat his life. Even so, evil has not truly prevailed by the end of the play, and is rather everyplacecome by the good that is the Venetian society. Iago holds one true goal in his plotting to corrupt Othello so that he will turn against the ones closest to him. But as the play progresses, there besides seem to be a power struggle, whereas Iago is jealous of Othellos purview and empowering authority and wants Othello out of the way so that he can suck up power.Iago is tired of acting like one courteous and knee-crooking knave like he always appears to be (I. i. 46). He does not the type of handmaid that is humble and waits for his master like an obedient mule, and only to be tossed out when he is all weathered and old. No, since Iago is unable to choose to be a master, he is the servant that feeds off the fame and keep yet their hearts attending on themselves, still showing his service to his master but instead is more self-preserving with no at tachments at all towards the master (I.i. 52). Iago chooses to follow someone who is able to be manipulated, and declares upon the opening of the play that he is no sure servant to Othello. He puts up a front of honesty and presumable whiteness, but inside he is just as black as he is white on the outside. In this way he goes to dispute the good, the whiteness in Othello, and in turn making his defeat estimable to his evil plans. It is very obvious that his challenge against good is a advantage when Desdemona is murdered by Othello, but evils victory is short-lived. closely immediately, Iagos wife Emilia turns against him and uncovers the blackness that he truly is underneath his false honesty. Ulterior moves exposed, he is hunted cut dorsum by the officials of Venice afterward killing Emilia and brought back to be tortured. His plans have failed, lost to the good and foiled by societies ironies, betrayed by his wife, after successfully making Othello kill Desdemona for doi ng the exact same thing. In this way, evil has not prevailed, and goal gone unaccomplished by goods interruption.Evil may have win Othello and Desdemonas soul, but in itself evil did not triumph over good, as Iago lost his power and discovered and punished accordingly. All in all, evil and good is expressed as a never-ending clamber in Shakespeares tragedies. None overcomes the other, ending the play in a stalemate and effectively purges deep emotions within the audience. Also, the inevitable stalemate that leaves some(prenominal) sides wounded stirs some incomprehensible feelings as to why humans even both(prenominal)er fighting at all in the first place.It is not humans place to judge, but to act accordingly to the great director that is the world. World puts humans through excruciating hardships in order to define a persons souls worth at the time of death. Life is the judgment for humans, as they, like Othello, contain both black and white and has the potential to turn eith er way down each individual lifes paths. Evil and Good is acknowledge as each quality manifests during a persons lifetime, and only at the moment of death is he able to look back and see what he truly is without hindrance of the other.