Love in OthelloIn William Shakespeare's tragic drama Othello, love comes in many colors. Consider Othello's love for Iago; the so-called love of the ancients for Emilia; Desdemona's immaculate love for the general; Bianca's love for Michael Cassio; Brabantio's love for his daughter. This essay will explore the various types of love depicted in this tragedy. Initially the work presents a very distorted type of love. Act 1 Scene 1 shows Roderigo, generous in his old-fashioned gifts, questioning Iago's love for the former, whose concern has been the courtship of Desdemona. Roderigo interprets Iago's love for him as based on the ancient's hatred for the Moor. So the rich suitor says accusingly, “You told me you hated him.” And Iago replies: “Despise me if I do not.” Partly out of hatred towards the general, partly to demonstrate his loyalty to Roderigo's cause, Iago explains in detail the reasons for his hatred towards Othello, who gave the lieutenancy to Michael Cassio, a Florentine. Secondly, Iago suggests that Roderigo and he wake up and disturb Brabantio, Desdemona's father: Call his father, Wake him: get after him, poison his delight, Proclaim him in the streets; He incenses his relatives, and, though he dwells in a fertile climate, torments him with flies: though his joy is joy, yet it casts upon him such changes of vexation, that he may lose a little colour. (1.1)So a cry goes up in front of the senator's residence – partly for Iago to demonstrate his love for Roderigo so that financial rewards continue to flow to the soldier. Once the senator is awakened, Iago makes a series of strong ...... middle of paper ...... They are not aiming at me. (5.2)The Moor immediately suffocates his innocent wife. Soon Emilia enters the scene and Desdemona recovers just enough to tell her friend that she is dying an innocent death. His last words are of kindness to Othello: "Recommend me to my kind lord: oh, farewell!" Emilia exonerates Desdemona and accuses Iago of having caused the murder. He actually gives his life for his lady since Iago stabs her to death for revealing the truth. Othello, pained by remorse for the tragic mistake he has made, stabs himself and dies on the bed next to his wife, his pain as deep as his love for Desdemona before Iago's machinations.WORKS CITEDShakespeare, William. Othello. In Electric Shakespeare. Princeton University. 1996. http://www.eiu.edu/~multilit/studyabroad/othello/othello_all.html No lines n..