I think this play has been so popular over many years because its connection that many people in the world may have to the story. This story includes, adultery, worry, jealously, pride, manipulation, and death, love. All of these scenarios and feelings are so common in the everyday lifestyle to this day. Many people feel the fear of their loved one going against them; they fear love and death and what it could do to them. The world is a cruel place and with cruel manipulative people that are encountered all the time to better themselves and to enhance performance. I think this play touches so many connections to everyday life for so many people that the viewers and readers feel that they are not alone.

Othello: “I kiss thee ere I killed thee. No way but this,

Killing myself to die upon a kiss.” Act V, scene ii, lines 420-421

Othello in the end kills himself after seeing how he was betrayed and through all of the stereotypes, he was led to make decisions that were not in the best interest of his family, as he kills Desdemona prior. I feel like this quote is strong in summing up the story as a whole as it closes the play. He is saying how the women he kissed is now the women he killed and for that action, he will kiss her one last time and kill himself. By saying “No way but this,” I feel like it represents how he could no longer live with the understanding of his actions for killing his wife and being in the situation he now resides because of the falsified thoughts put into his head by Iago who should have been a loyal friend. He was misleading to believe information that was not right. In reality he should have been listening to his wife and understanding what she was saying and not what others were saying to him. In the end he feels his actions are not forgivable and that he is his worst enemy when he connects himself to a Turk. This was a good ending I feel because it closes the play with a dramatic ending and the main character finding out about how malicious people can be regardless of relationship. I feel that this teaches Othello what it really means to be married, how you should act towards a spouse, and how communication and trust is most important.