Tainted Love
Love, hate, and violence are all emotions that are experienced by people at one or more times during their lifetime. Othello by William Shakespeare and “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” by Raymond Carver are stories in which love, hate and violence fulfill an important role among the relationships between characters. Though the emotions of love and hate are considered opposites it is possible for each to bring about violence. In Shakespeare’s Othello love leads to hate and hate leads eventually to violence. There are many love relationships in Othello. Othello loves Desdemona, Cassio, and he even loves Iago. Emilia loves her husband Iago. Each of these relationships develops into hate and eventually into violence. Shakespeare makes the characters think that love will bring them happiness, but in the end it brings them the most suffering and the most pain. One of the central themes of this play, because there are many, is romantic love. Iago sees love as only being lust but to the others it is much more. In “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” Terri and Mel both experience violence in their previous relationships. In Terri’s relationship with Ed love provokes the violence, while in Mel’s relationship . . .
Mel thinks about it but does not act on his thoughts of violence. Mel also tells Terri that it was stupid of Ed to kill himself over love even though Mel believes that it would be nice to be a knight and die for a woman. Othello asks Iago to kill Cassio by saying, “Within these three days let me hear thee say/ That Cassio’s not alive” (Othello 3. Othello comes to a very tragic ending. “Sure, It’s abnormal in most people’s eyes. Othello tells Emilia, “She’s like a liar gone to burning hell; `Twas I that kill’d her. Othello does not succeed in killing Iago, but wounds him. Mel in “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” like Othello has loved several people. Mel states, “There was a time when I thought I loved my first more than life itself” (Carver 728).
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