When a person is in love he or she will often only see the positive aspects of the person they are in love with and they are blind to any of their flaws. People want to feel that they understand the person they love and that they can trust them. This is not always the case. There are times that one of the people in the relationship is deceitful and dishonest as they are being unfaithful. In the play Othello, by William Shakespeare, the book The Pilot's wife, by Anita Shreve, and the film Unfaithful it is apparent in the main relationships being examined in these works that one person has been disrespecting the other person in order to achieve a relationship with another.
In the play Othello, Othello is led to believe that his wife is being unfaithful because of the lies and rumours portrayed to him by Iago, "Thus credulous fools are caught, and many worthy and chaste dames even thus all guiltless meet approach"(IV, i , 45-47). Othello believes Iago's words as he is Othello's good friend and believes he is trustworthy. Othello is unaware of the fact that Iago is just planning and scheming in order to reach his goal that is to obtain the Captain's position. Othello feels that he is provided with proof when he sees a handkerchief that he had given to his wife in Cassio's possession. Little did he know that Iago had arranged that the handkerchief be copied and the evidence had been planted. Through a series of lies, allegations and rumour Iago convinces Othello that his wife has been untrue. This ultimately results in Othello killing his wife Desdermona. In the meantime Desdermona has been faithful and has a deep love for her husband. .
Throughout the play it is obvious that Othello has a very jealous nature and is easily led to mistrust his wife. "Why? Why is this? Think'st thou I"d make a life of jealousy? To follow still the changes of the moon with fresh suspicions? No! To be once in doubt is once to be resolv"d.