Olivia+K+Othello

Olivia K. Thesis statement

Water something that can give life as easily as it can take it away this belief is best executed in the play Othello composed by Shakespeare through the play water is used to create a different feelings with the audience such as panic, empathy and love.

Prior to leaving Cyprus Iogo tells Othello what of which Desdiminonia father has been saying of him. Her father despises the marriage and his new sun and law to the extent at which he truly believes that Othello has used some kind of magic to win his daughters hand. Othello when in response seems to as though just shrug off the news of Desdimonias father and says that his love for Desdimonia will prove him to be wrong “May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune As this that I have reached for know, Iago, But that I love the gentle Desdimonia I wound not my unhused free condition put into circumscriptions and confine for the seas worth,”. As the weather changes Othello mood seems to change as well his once strong and passionate love for his wife seems to dissipate much like the sun. Desdimonia chooses to join Othello on his journey to Cyprus and in result leaving her old life behind. They travel by separate boats representing the disconnect they have and will have throughout the play. During their travels they Esperance unforgiving weather the water hits and rocks the boats violently. This unforechenint weather creates an uneasy feeling in the bottoms of audience’s stomachs. The weather seems almost ominous foreshadowing the untimely events that are to accrue it the near future “ It is a hgh- wrought flood I cannot twixt the heaven and the main Descry sail" (first Gentleman) " Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land a fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements if it hath ruddianed so upon the sea, what ribs of Oak, whne mountains melt on them, Can hold the mortise? " Montano ( pg 59) “This feeling uneasy feeling becomes more potent when Iogo waits know time to innate a image of deception of Desdimonia. These discussions create a storm of emotions sending deathly winds at the audience.

Water clear and pure but easily tainted like someone’s reputation. The small drop of dirt quickly disperses turning the clear water in to mud. In Othello eyes Desdiminoia is seen to be as pure and sacred as water but his perception of her quickly changes with every word uttered by Iogo. Iogo aware of the power of the green eyed monster plays on Othello weaknesses and causes him to lose faith in the one he seemed to treasure the most. One could even argue that Othello never really loved Desdiminoia but loved the status she gave him or even the sympathy she gave him. He often boasted of how she would aw over him and his tragic stories to the point where she was almost greedy. “would Desdemona seriously incline but still the house affairs would draw her which ever as she could with haste dispatch she's come again, and with greedy ear" ( pg 39 act 1 sc 3) ”. But when he learns of her straying that status is taken away from him she has become what he swore he could not stand and would not stand for the venison myth “ Loook to your wife observe her well with Cassio wear your eyes thus, not jelous nor secure i would not have your free and noble nature out of self-bounty, be abused. Look to't. I know our country disopition well. In Venice they do let (God) see the pranks THey dare not show their husbands" (Iogo pg 131). The reader can see tone of his voice change the choice of words from calm and soothing to hostile and worrisome. Although he is not fully convinced and he still has some of his humanity because he states that if these allegation were true he would leave Desdimonia. Venice is a city built on water knows for its sinful inhabitants. The water that consumes the city is mucky and discolored and tainted. Iogio knowing all to well of the ladies that live in Venice warns Othello to look after Desdimonia because so far she has already proven to be un-loyal because she has betrayed her father. When Iogo gives him proof of Desdimonia straying he loses touch with reality. He becomes what he is warned to watch out for and that is the greened eyed monster. His eyes every part of his body quivers with anger and the only cure to calm the beast is revenge. He not only seeks revenge on his wife but her ledged lover. In order to repurefiy the mucky water that is his reputatio.

Othello consumed bye rage and his desire for approval decided to act out on his feelings and devices a plan with Iogo to kill Casio and Desdemona. Othello at this point feels that in order to gain the respect and replenish his reputation that he was destroying whatever is tainting it “Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light If I quen, U can again thy former light restore”. (pg 235 act 5 sc 2 Othello.). Othello rage and feelings are as violent and unforgiving as the storm in the begging o, thou flaming minister f the play. He will try to drown and destroy Desdemona and Casio like the storm had tried to. The green eyed monster that lurked within has finally risen from the murky and surfaced. Othello sends Iogo to kill cassia while he kills Desdimonia. Othello once wanted to use poisen has now changed his mind he chooses a more personal matter. He chooses to strangler her this means he will have to look her in the eye and watch her take her very last breath. After killing Desdimonia he soon finds out that it was all a lie conjured up by Iogo in his plan to ruin Othello’s reputation. Othello is soon fludded with a feeling of guilt and undying hatred and “drops tears as fast as Arabian trees” ( pg 265 act 5 sc 2 Othello) and feels as though death is his only salvation. What stood a strong powerful man of great respect now stood one filled of pity, tears and tormented to insanity. He looks at Desdemona and what he has done and what he has become “Here is my journeys end, here is my butt and very sea- mark of my utmost sail do you go back dismayed? Tis a lost fear man but a rush against Othellos breast And he retired where should Othello go? Now, how dost throu look now? O ill-starred wench Pale as thy smock, when we shall meet at compt” ( pg 259 act 5 sc 2 Othello) Othello then looks at himself one more time and utters his last words and “ dies upon a kiss”.