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Shakespeare's tragic vision in Othello is one that people can relate to today. People are out to fulfill their lives how they want them to be lived. There is no line to draw when it comes to human desire. Desires are the focus and motivation of everyone's mindset. Othello is no different. Othello's emotional discharge of desire brings about Iago's, Emilia's, Roderigo's, and Desdemona's premature fate.

Othello's most pertinent influence is on Iago. Although Iago is the puppet master, his hatred and jealousy for Othello fuel his ingenious plan. Iago's whole-hearted devotion to his plan quickly spreads the fatal elements of love, hate, and revenge. Roderigo and Cassio were victims of the plan. "I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense,/ And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio,/ Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,/ Every way makes my gain." Love and money got involved, and like any good tragedy one person drew the short straw and another pulled the shorter straw. Iago's selfish love for Emilia is the reason for their deaths. Desdemona's love for Othello was quite the opposite. Desdemona was not only willing to die for her man, but she did so with out any regrets. "A guiltless death I die." Desdemona was the only one who truly loved Othello, making the play all that much more of a romantic tragedy and an appropriate ending.