Othello

Othello In the play Othello, by William Shakespeare, the main character, Othello, experiences a heroic struggle within his own mind, which leads to his downfall. He feels that it is directly based on his cultural background. The villain in the play, Iago, puts this in his mind when he tells Othello that his wife, Desdemona is having an affair and claims that he saw Cassio with Desdemona’s handkerchief. Othello becomes angry of this and reflects his cultural background, how his is black and the fact that he is a soldier and begins to experiences his own heroic downfall. The affair between Cassio and Desdemona really starts to become true to Othello when Iago claims that he saw Cassio with Desdemona’s handkerchief. The handkerchief was a gift Desdemona received from Othello. The handkerchief has been passed down othello, handkerchief, desdemona, cassio, background, affair, symbol, play, othello’s, love, iago, cultural, between, saw, own, mind, heroic, having, generation, experiences, downfall, desdemona’s, claims, been, within, william, wife, way, villain, very, two, true, thought, tells, struggle, starts