Othello- Tragedy

"O blood, blood, blood!" III, iii, 460

Othello is most likely going to result in tragedy from all the foreshadowing about violence and death wishes. When ever someone is angry in this play they resolve to kill the one which the anger was caused or directed at, or themselves to escape the problem all together. With characters who value life so little, there will be life lost. Iago is setting up these characters precisely because he know exactly what makes them vulnerable and puts them into these compromising states. Iago knows that Othello loves Desdemona very much and would be most distraught if something were to happen to her, or if he found out that she were unfaithful. He knows that Cassio is a good man who values his job, so he takes that away from him to make him vulnerable. What is truly guineas, is, up until the third act at least, nobody even suspects him. This makes the preposed death toll even higher, because if this story line continues with out any of the main characters finding out, they will all kill each other.