why good people do bad things: lessons from Othello
We've all been there, right? The moment when you look back at something you did or said, and you're left wondering, "what the heck was I thinking?" Maybe you snapped at someone when you didn't mean to, or treated someone a way you wouldn't want to be treated, and now you're just feeling... so guilty. It's that feeling that, deep down, you're a good person but somehow made a bad choice, and I've personally felt this way more times than I'd like to admit. Reading Othello gave me a reminder that the line between good and bad is more of a gradient. Othello was introduced in the play as this dark-skinned Moor living in Venice. This decorated military officer that seemed to have everything going on for him. He's shown as a man who beat all odds and now sits at the top through handwork and determination, a picturesque societal representation of success. So how could he have turned into such a bad person so quickly? Well, Othello's downfal...