"O Spartan dog, More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea! Look on the tragic loading of this bed: This is thy work." V.ii.360-363
The theme I want to touch on is that jealousy is a powerful, often destructive force. This quote is where Lodovico is pointing to the bed of Othello, Emilia, and Desdemona dead. Iago is the reason for all of this. The root of all this death is jealousy from Iago and Othello. Iago was first jealous of Cassio that he was Othello's commander. Second, Iago was jealous of Othello supposedly sleeping with his wife. He then manipulated Othello into thinking Desdemona was having an affair with Cassio. This caused outrageous jealousy, and Othello killed Desdemona. Things just snowballed from there, and now you have three dead people. Jealousy is very destructive (clearly) and mostly harms the person who is jealous.
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