Othelllo 1

Trust seems to be a real problem for many of the people in Shakespeare's Othello.  As I continue to read through act three, even Othello is experiencing multiple situations involving trust.  First, his Lieutenant Cassio is involved in a reputation ruining fight.  Because of this, we see that Othello cannot trust his supposedly most trusted man.  Secondly, his new wife, Desdemona is seriously trusting Othello's patience and trust.  However, he testing his trust is not by any means by her doing.  The mischievous Iago is implanting fallacies inside of Othello's head.  Unfortunately, I do not believe that Othello currently has the guts to just go and find out immediately instead of even looking through Iago. However, we do see that Othello is serious about finding the truth and will do anything to find it.  "Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore, Be sure of it, give me ocular proof"(Shakespeare, III, iii, 1416).  I feel that trust will continue to be an interesting factor in the outcome of this play due to its prevalence at the beginning with Brabantio all the way to the end of act three.