He probably did not consider Desdemona an equal, but she represented all the good he could attain or accomplish. Othello told Iago, "My demerits may speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune as this that I have reached." Othello loved Desdemona as an extension of himself, and in his greatest moments of happiness, his marriage was sustained by an idealized vision of himself serving as the object of his exalted romantic passion.4 .
When Othello exclaimed, "When I love thee not, chaos is come again," in response to Desdemona's willing obedience to him, it served as foreshadowing. The passionate intensity of his love prepared the way for his tragedy.5 In his mind, he set up a romanticized idea of his wife, a standard so high, that Iago was able to create doubt and use it against him later on. Othello's world began to spiral out of control when Iago led him on to believe that Desdemona was being unfaithful to him.6 Othello protested that he would never obey the changes of the moon; he kneeled to swear that he would be as constant as the icy current of the Pontic Sea, but Iago knew that Othello was already altered from what he rightly was, "The Moor already changes with my poison." Iago's insatiable and sadistic appetite for others" suffering was very abnormal and thus everything around him was destroyed before he faced his own demise. However, Othello's tragedy is perhaps the most melancholic of the three tragedies. Although he incarnated the inexorable guilt and ultimate death that we recognize as the tragic element in humanity's fate,7 his eventual awareness offered a redeeming catharsis. It was too late however; Othello had already smothered Desdemona to death. .
Contrasting Iago, who had no consciousness of good, Macbeth began with doubt in his ambitious plans. His doubts were stimulated by his subconscious recognition that there was no possible way to integrate his desires with the proper order of things.