Othello, Tragedy of Trust

Tragedy of Trust Naïve, unsophisticated, proud, and strong-willed, although a short list of characteristics it is broad in meaning, almost a paradox in ways. These are the personality traits that are brought out in the character of Othello throughout the play, “The Tragedy of Othello”. However, only a few of these traits would have been apparent if it had not been for the character of Iago. He instigated all of the wrong- doing that …

…when he finds out that it was not his wife that was betraying him, but it was his long-time companion Iago. Othello’s pride is destroyed here; he is extremely ashamed of his overreacting causing him to lose rational thought. Everything that Othello had gained by serving as a general at war was thrown away; he lost all self-respect and felt the only rational consequence was to do was to die by his own hand.