The abnormal appearance of Othello In this essay we talk about the abnormal vision of life found in Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. Is a distorted view of life expressed only by the bad guy? Iago is generally recognized as the only character who possesses and operates according to an abnormal psychology. But Lily B. Campbell in Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes tells of the moment when the hero himself approached "madness": Othello himself cries: You have put me on the wheel. I swear it's better to be very insulted than to know a little. And then we find him torturing himself with the thought of Cassio's kisses on Desdemona's lips, and he reiterates the idea of ​​property in his speech of being robbed. From this moment on Othello has become a slave to passion. As he bids farewell to the quiet mind, to contentment, to war and his occupation, as he asks Iago to prove his love for a whore, as he threatens Iago and at the same time begs for proof, he is ultimately brought almost to the brink of the abyss . of madness [. . .] . (165)Fortunately the protagonist finds his balance, and when he kills, it is for the noble reason of cleansing the world of a "prostitute". On the other hand, the vileness of the evil Iago never changes. David Bevington in William Shakespeare: Four Tragedies describes the irrationality and self-destructiveness of the behavior of the ancients: Emilia understands that jealousy is not a rational affliction but a self-induced disease of the mind. Jealous people, he tells Desdemona, “are never jealous for the cause, / But jealous because they are jealous. He is a monster / Self-begotten, self-born” (3.4.161 – 163). Iago's own testimony confirms this, because his jealousy is at the same time completely irrational and agonizingly self-destructive. “I suspect the lusty Moor / has sprung upon my seat, his thought /, like a poisonous mineral, gnaws at my insides” (2.1.296 – 298). (223)Blanche Coles in Shakespeare's The Four Giants affirms the Bard's commitment to abnormal psychology, and his use of abnormal psychology: That Shakespeare was strongly interested in the study of the abnormal mind is commonly accepted among students. [. . .] The suggestion that Iago may have been intentionally designed as a psychopathic personality is not new. [. . .] Even a casual perusal of a book about the stories of psychopathic patients will find Iago peeking out from many of its pages.