Good and Bad Morality in OthelloWilliam Shakespeare's play Othello is a concentrated contest between the forces of the morally good and the morally bad. We analyze this context in more detail in this essay. Like a dark silhouette on a white background, the drama's sinister character and master of deception stands out: the elderly general. Morton W. Bloomfield and Robert C. Elliott in Great Plays: Sophocles to Brecht highlight the dominant evil force in the play, Iago: For critics, the main problem in the play is the character of Iago. The debate usually centers on whether he had sufficient motivation for his cruel actions or whether, instead, he is an example of “unmotivated malice.” The question cannot be resolved here, nor is there any need to attempt to resolve it. Iago, whether out of disappointment at not having obtained Cassio's place, or out of the belief that Othello had betrayed him, or out of love for evil as an end in itself, is nevertheless a man who has rejected every bond of morality and morality. idealism. (39)To add up the lies that the ancient tells everyone about him would require considerable effort and time. In Shakespeare's Four Giants Blanche Coles comments on the lack of truthfulness in Iago's speech: The story which Iago tells Roderigo of Cassio's promotion of him is not true, though it has been accepted by many discerning scholars. Imprudent reading alone can explain this misunderstanding, imprudent reading which for the moment attenuates their attention towards one of the most essential requirements of Shakespearean character analysis. This requirement is that the reader must never accept, or must always find himself... in the center of the paper... it is the final passion. From the stern general who had, as his first line, the cold “It is better as it is” (1.2.6), he has traveled a pilgrimage of known and felt pain. And, it must be repeated, it will depend on the viewer whether he will judge or rejoice in the transfiguration of loving not wisely but too well. (66) WORKS CITED Bloomfield, Morton W. and Robert C. Elliott, ed. Great works: from Sophocles to Brecht. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1965. Coles, Blanche. Shakespeare's Four Giants. Rindge, New Hampshire: Richard Smith Publisher, 1957. Jorgensen, Paul A. William Shakespeare: The Tragedies. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985.Shakespeare, William. Othello. In Electric Shakespeare. Princeton University. 1996. http://www.eiu.edu/~multilit/studyabroad/othello/othello_all.html No lines n..