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Othello the Moor Venice

Othello and killed his good feelings though being unaware of it till the very end . Besides killing her own daddy Desdemona subconsciously wanted to die herself because she felt guilty for hating Brabantio and wishing him die

Othello 's attitude to the wife and his mad jealousy perfectly fit into the theory of Oedipus complex , when a man sees his mother in every woman he meets in life . The Moor often behaves as a child , for example when he speaks about his noble parents and high qualities of a soldier and does

not care to look modest . Like a child he is searching for a friend and suspects that other people want to hurt him . To say more , he prefers to socialize with men mostly , because women make him uncomfortable

In Desdemona he also wanted to find the substitute for his mother . It is intentionally that he tells Desdemona about the handkerchief his mother had left him . To go further , the story takes place on the island and the personages travel to Cyprus on board of the ship . According to Freudian theory , ship stands for a female symbol and the water usually goes with birth , the female principle , the maternal , the womb , and the death wish Thus , getting into the storm , the personages are subjects for dying . In addition , Othello wants to join his own mother through the journey through the symbol of the ship

According to Jungian theories , the conflicts between the personages may be interpreted as the conflicts between the general habit of a person to neglect or cynically evaluate the surroundings and the opposite habit to see the world through rose-coloured glasses . Othello and Iago act as if they are two halves of a human soul , one is dark and the opposite is light . Iago is the...

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