"Othello"

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"Othello" by William Shakespeare is a play demonstrating that we all have strengths and weaknesses and that, while the best of us will focus on people's strengths, the worst of us will not only focus on their weaknesses, but use them in destructive ways. It discusses how, throughout the play, the weakness of jealousy directly or indirectly brings the destruction and downfall of all the major characters, including not only Othello and his bride Desdemona, but Iago, his wife Emilia, Roderigo, and Cassio.

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"Othello is particularly vulnerable because, being a Moor, he is somewhat an outsider (Weller, PAGE). He is accepted as a leader in society and as a great military man, but he is aware of his differences. He used them to charm those around him, wooing and winning the beautiful Desdemona and then defending her marriage to others, but the villain of the play, Iago, knows that it can be easy to cast doubt on an outsider, and he uses Othello's differences to his own perverted and personal advantage."

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