Many different themes can be interpreted or identified throughout the literary work Othello, by

William Shakespeare. Of the countless ideas that could be found, I've decided to focus on the trend of
hate reoccurring throughout this story. Hatred, being defined as an intense dislike or ill will seems
to be one of the more evident themes shown in Othello's tale, as it easily appears to be the whole
foundation from the beginning of the play, down toward the end. From Iago's feeling of envy for the
achievement of another man, Micheal Cassio, to the wars that are being fought within the time frame of
the setting this work: hate is a very present emotion.
So where is it all coming from? In other words, where did this envious emotion begin to show within
the characters? Well, it is very clearly portrayed at the beginning of this work, where, as
aforementioned earlier within this essay, Iago shows anger towards Othello because he had giving the
rank of lieutenant, a rank of which he felt was deserved by himself, to another man. This man was
Micheal Cassio. For this, Iago also envied Cassio and heavily criticized him for not even being
qualified for the position of which he had recently been appointed. As a result of this envy, Iago
formulates plans to bring misfortunes to Othello, whom he refers to as the Moor, and Cassio. These
plans include the termination of Othello's new marital relationship with Desdemona, who's father also
showed an understandable hate toward him, for this affair was not approved by him in any way until he
had found out about it at the last moment. After taking Othello to a trial and ultimately having to accept
his daughters new spouse, he even refused to let her remain living in his home. Iago also aimed to have
Cassio be caught in some crime that would result in him being fired from his ranking as a lieutenant.
The next act begins with a conversation between Iago, his wife and Desdemona pertaining to women.
The ladies got frustrated with Iago as he generalized women as wanting to do anything that they could
to sleep with a man. He talks about how he hates that his wife talks so much, even when he's trying to
sleep. By saying all of this, Iago manages to portray a general hate toward women alltogether. But, on
top of this, that whole conversation fit right into his plan for Cassio and Othello's downfalls because, at
the moment, he was trying to get Cassio to look like he was being flirtatious toward Othellos wife to
make him jealous. To continue this plan, Iago was able to get Cassio mad at Rodrigo and drunk enough
to start a fight in the streets, eventually harming Montano. Cassio's rank as a lietuenent was revoked
because of these seemingly careless events. All of this just goes on to lead to a new phase of Iago's
evil plan: leading Cassio to talk to Desdemona, just to make Othello jealous. He figures that the more
Othello's wife tries to help Cassio, the less he'll turst her.
Act 3 doesnt have very much action concerning hate within the first half. Those first two scenes were
pretty short compared to the rest. Though the story did make it's progression and feelings of hate came
straight back into the spotlight. As part of his magnificent plan, Iago was able to create some small
shadow of doubt within Othello's mind. And eventually, this shadow grew greatly. It grew until
Othello was nearly convinced that he was a victim of an extramarital affair. All that was needed for him
was some sort of evidence that it had been true. So, naturally, this is where Iago's seeminly prominent
skill of lying kicked in. He told a story of when he had slept next to Micheal Cassio one night. He
described him as having some sort of dream involving Desdemona and how they would be in love with
eachother. On top of that, he had retieved another key peice of evidence from his wife that came into
play at this point: The hankercheif that Othello had given to Desdemona as a gift. The hankercheif that
she had always kept with her to remind her the man that she loved. As Iago mentioned this peice of
evidence, he claimed that he saw Cassio wiping his beard with the cloth. This enraged Othello. He
wanted blood. He wanted to kill both Cassio and Desdemona, though Iago attempted to pursuade him
to spare her life. The hate is only fed when it is comfirmed that the hankercheif is missing and
Othello storms off in a fit of rage. This leads to a little speech from Iago's wife, Emilia, which basically
claimed that men are all the same.

And in act four, it happened. Iago, in one of his most clever and deceptive techniques of trickery yet,
had succeeded to make it appear as if Cassio was talking about sleeping with Desdemona. Othello was
completely blinded from the truth by the rage that he was filled with. He spoke of killing his wife,
despite all of the good traits that she had. He even asked Iago for poison to do the job. Instead, they
agreed that he would strangle her in the bed that she supposedly had cheated on him in and Iago would
kill Cassio at the same time. So after some time, Desdemona was talking to Lodovico. Othello was
observing this conversation and making nasty remarks until he struck her. He confronted her once
more, alone this time, about the matter, calling his wife a whore as she denied the whole thing. As
usual, Iago simply lies when he was asked about what was going on afterward. Afterward, Iago's plan
progress even more, as he assigns Rodrigo to kill Cassio. In the mean time, Othello is setting the stage
to take away the life of the woman that he had once loved. The rest of this scene basically foreshadows
Desdemonas death.
And in the final act, the climax occours. Both Cassio and Rodrigo stab eachother and begin to bleed out
and Othello gets the signal to go and kill his wife. Rodrigo died and Cassio was injured in a nearly
lethal manner. He was carried away in a stretcher, though.