THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S
INTERVIEW WITH A PSYCHIATRIST:
PSYCHIATRIST: Hello Iago, How are you doing today?
IAGO: (he cries, then gets up and then pace up and down the room) I didn’t mean to do it. I didn’t mean to do it? It was all because of that distinctive Othello with thick-lips, who looks like a barbary horse. He made me take action against what I swore to myself I would not do.
PSYCHIATRIST: How do you feel about what has just happened?
IAGO: at first I felt remorseful, but not anymore because I have come to realize, that he got every thing that he deserved. If only he had done what was right and not tried to take what belonged to me. I wouldn’t have gone as far as I went.
PSYCHIATRIST: Do you want to explain to me why you did this?
IAGO: Oh I was very envious of Othello, he had a beautiful wife, who loves and cares for him, and also the whole town and city respected him. Gave him compliments for everything he done, even though he was an outsider. Without not knowing what he does in secret. And there was me behind him, I couldn’t believe it how and foreigner (Moor) became my boss I mean the general of the Venetian army. The moor took what belonged, all the respect and the job. I despised the man from the very first day I set eyes on him, I knew he was going to be someone who would always try and compete with me. And my hatred towards him grew even stronger the day he appointed Cassio as lieutenant. How could he do such a thing after he called me ‘honest Iago’ his good friend.
