othellolove and lust

Love and Lust Lots of times people get love and lust confused. In Shakespeare’s Othello, the characters in this book are very confused about the difference and it results in perplexity, confusion, commotion and death. This is shown in Shakespeare’s use of symbolism, characterization and irony. The person who best illustrates this theme is Roderigo. He tells Iago, “That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse,” to get Desdemona for himself. (I,I,2) …

…abuses, divorces or affairs. The amount of divorces has tripled since the1980’s. People also get married because of pregnancy which often results in spousal abuse and child abuse because the father will get involved in something he doesn’t want to do, which makes him angry and he takes it out on the wife. So as I concluded, people repeatedly get love and lust confused and Shakespeare does an astonishing job of defining it.