In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago character stays the same throughout but Othello’s does not. How and why does this happen?

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In Shakespeare's Othello, Iago character stays the same throughout but Othello's does not. How and why does this happen?

Othello's character undergoes a dramatic transformation, the man of calm integrity seen at the beginning of the play deteriorates into a man infected with ideas of revenge and death.

This essay will focus on the attitudes and relationships between the central characters and the mistrust that is apparent as the play progresses.

Othello is the protagonist of this tragedy who can be solely described as the tragic hero of the play. Aristotle defined a tragic hero as a person who moves from the highest point to the lowest. Othello was once referred to as the saviour of the Venetian state but later appeared to be a mentally disturbed murderer whose mistrust and jealousy for Desdemona brought about his downfall.

A common finale in Shakespeare's plays is having the central character killed in a bloody and violent fashion. In plays such as Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet a death occurs early on in the play which triggers off conflict between the central characters. The death at the beginning of Othello is that of principles and trust, the kind,