Sinfulness
The play “Othello” is a very famous dramatic form of classical tragedy by William Shakespeare. The theme of evil and sin is clearly portrayed in the Elizabethan literature at that time, especially perform in the works of Shakespeare. Some elements or points of views are always occurs in these produces, such as the combination of race, rage, greedy, envy and so on. In the case of “Othello”, a hero--Othello struggle against enormous fate. The theme of works including many which comprises of the theme of love and jealousy, human as a gullible being and breach of trust of the subject and so on. In “Doctor Faustus”, Christopher Marlowe unfold the story revolve around the conflict of different beliefs in the mindset of doctor Faustus. In the terms of similar themes between this two plays,
Sin as a major theme which is depicted in the Othello’s play and “Doctor Faustus”. In the world, everyone has original sin. It is involved with the different kinds of desire, for instance, inferiority complex which overwhelmed and engulfed the human beings senses. we felt that ourselves is ignorant and humble at sometimes. There is one of the most clearly stated examples of the key character in the play “Othello”, Othello is not aware how deeply inferiority and prejudice has penetrated into his own personality, in the play, “I am not attractive”, “I am not worthy of Desdemona”, “it cannot be true that she really loves me,” and “if she loves me, then there must be something wrong with her”, these thoughts provoking by Iago’s lies and instigate, the most important, Othello do not have the confident about himself as well as the love between his wife and him. Furthermore, jealousy is part of the personality of human beings. In the play, both Othello and Iago could not obliterate from his mind the desire of jealousy. The existence of jealousy has the tendency to destroy Othello, he says: “O beware jealousy, it is the greeney’d monster, which doth mock, that meat it feeds on” (iii.3). Jealousy arouses that narrowness of mind, ideas, or views in Othello’s mind as well as Iago’s mind. For Othello, the growing jealousy drive himself to kills Desdemona, ultimately when the truth are make known, Othello return to calm rationality of judging and cannot bear his own mental accusation, which told him that he was sinful, finally he executing himself. In a similar way, as a villain, Iago also control by the desire of power, social status, and envy about happiness of others in his mind. It is true that it is wicked men who do such things, but the source of all such sins is that radical canker (sinfulness) in the mind.
Initially sin is regarded as a concept or motif in both play i.e. Doctor Faustus’ and ‘Othello’ does contribute an abundance to comment upon characters who are Satan figure which resemble evil villains and these two elements in both "Doctor Faustus" and "Othello “are interrelated in terms of Sinful incidence. Owing to that the two plays portray very similar comparisons and more meticulous.
The play “Doctor Faustus”, in my point of view, Faustus is an excellence expert and holistically professional in many field of study including Medicine, divine philosophy, law and so forth. In other’s view, he has already attained a great deal of achievements. He obtained the respect, praise, and adore form others, but he do not feel gratification and happy, he desires to further his mortal knowledge, power or something which are not humanly attainable, so that ,he pact with the devil in order get the magic to do whatever he yearns. He have again and again done a greedily and mad-brained in his actions. What is pride but an appetite for inordinate exaltation? In this processing, doctor Faustus was swelled with pride about himself, and finally those evil desires ruined his mind and soul. “MEPHASTOPHILIS: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think’st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss? O Faustus, leave these frivolous demands, Which strike a terror to my fainting soul. FAUSTUS: What, is great Mephastophilis so passionate. For being deprivèd of the joys of heaven? Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude, And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess.” (3.76–86) \Here, doctor Faustus shows his conceited maximization and speaking with contemptuously. Faustus got the super black magic, it is present that he use this power to play tricks and silly pranks to pope or royal family, in order to spoof their dignity and power. Greedy, boastful, unwarranted prides all are belong to a part of sinfulness. The conflict of the different beliefs is burst from his inner heart, finally, Faustus fail to stop yielding to sin and intend to destroy himself at the hand of Lucifer.
Different people will have different desire, such as, the sensual desire, wealth desire, and vanity desire and so on. the sins are motivated by attachment to furtive desires and is in the nature of human being. The sinfulness of desire will destroy your intelligent, cultivation, character and soul, finally, your life become a tragedy, just like doctor Faustus and Othello. When I finished reading about both play I could comprehend that the themes are interrelated. According to the New Testament there is a disparity that differentiate between good and evil besides it is also dealing with the desires are the root course and the evil of this world to contribute to sinfulness.
It can be seen in the excerpt : Colossians 3:5 and the "worldly desires" of Titus 2:12. John described these as "the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life" (I John 2:16). Besides it can also be included the layman desires that are part of the human beings lives. Jesus spoke of those who ". . . have heard the word, and the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful" (Mark 4:18-19). In the long run,From the above except it reveals that the dark side of human beings and can be become a quintessence or exemplary to mankind.
References :
1. Relevent Bible Teaching, Retrieved 14 February 2010, from : http://www.relevantbibleteaching.com/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=140027724&sec_id=140001239
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