Human Nature and Reason: A Shifting Balance

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This essay uses Shakespeare's "Othello" to explore the concept that greed, lust, jealousy, and many other human emotions are natural and inevitable and that reason, sense, and ration are needed to counter such emotions.

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"Humans are prey to their raging emotions and need reason and sense to balance their appetites such as greed and lust. In Shakespeare's Othello, Iago uses his own reason and intelligence to take advantage of human nature's tendency to be lustful and jealous, and yet sympathetic as well. He weaves a web of lies in order to unbalance Othello, separating him from reason and self-control, kind and leading him to distrust, to hate, and finally to violence. "

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