Othello Act V

After reading the end of the play I do not feel 100% sorry for Othello because he let himself be manipulated. I feel pity towards him though because he was manipulated and it led to him distrusting his wife but don’t completely because he should have known better and should have known that his wife loved him too much to cheat on him. I do hate Iago because of everything he did. He caused the death of Desdemona and many others just because he was jealous that he did not get the job he wanted. It was stupid for him to go to the extremes that he did just because Othello did not choose him as lieutenant. It was a cruel thing for him to do, but I do acknowledge how good he was at manipulating people and for the most part he succeeded in everything he wanted to get done. I feel the most sorry for Desdemona because she was the most honest and true character throughout the whole book and she ended up being a victim in the end. She died because of another’s jealousy of her husband. It was cruel and unfair of what happened to her. She was just the innocent bystander who was used to get back at Othello and even in the end she lied and said she tried to kill herself so that she could protect Othello. Even though he killed her she still cared deeply for him and didn’t want anything to go wrong for him. I do feel sorry for Cassio too but not as much because it wasn’t his fault that Othello chose him over Iago and Iago took his anger out on Cassio. Iago was just a stupid, jealous man who took things way too far. I think that this could relate to real life because there are people always trying to manipulate you. You could have a friend telling you stuff about another person so that you aren’t friends with that person. These things happen all the time. There is always an Iago somewhere telling someone something and manipulating them into believing something.