William Shakespeare’s Othello is one of the most finely constructed plays in literature. It has no sub-plot and its action moves very fast as it is free from doubtful and extraneous matter as it has fewer characters. William Shakespeare the creator of this play was born in 1564 at Stratford-on-Avon and he has always been one of the most celebrated writers in English literature. In his early days he mainly wrote comedies and histories but with the emergence of 16th century he produced his finest works which were mainly tragedies like Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth (BBC History). Among the tragedies by Shakespeare, Othello is proved to be the most enduring of all the tragedies (iii). The major plot throughout the play is jealousy and misinterpretation. This play elucidates that how the green eyed monster of jealousy becomes the reason behind Othello’s tragedy. Othello’s tragic murder of Desdemona was caused not by just a single thing but many things, from them the most important was Othello himself, as Othello’s reluctant but complete conviction of Desdemona’s infidelity speaks of an insecurity born of his marginalized position (iii). Even the lovers in the play appear mere pawns, as easily manipulated as the less heroic characters in the play (iii). Also, Iago’s motive was not to provoke Othello to kill Desdemona yet he was driven to murder her. In the last scene of the play Othello was all set with the idea of killing his beloved, in his soliloquy beginning quoted, "It is the cause, it is the cause, my soulYet she must die, else she'll betray more men." (81). Here Othello’s soliloquy focuses on the fact that he must kill his wife to prevent her from betraying more men (81). Othello loved his wife Desdemona but killed her because of jealousy, misinterpretation of events, and trusting the wrong people who conspired against him. One of the reasons for the tragic murder of Desdemona by Othello was his belief in enchantment, the magic power of the handkerchief. After Iago’s intrigue starts in right earnest, he make attempts to provoke Othello about Desdemona and Cassio’s relationship, in act 3, scene 3, Othello is preoccupied with the jealousy and suspicion that Iago has injected in his mind, so he pushes away the handkerchief offered to him by Desdemona out of concern and then Desdemona negligently drops it somewhere. Unfortunately, Emilia picked the handkerchief and hands it over to Iago; this is where the tragedy begins. By the end of Scene 3, Othello’s level of jealousy has advanced and Iago boldly asserts that he saw the favorite handkerchief in hands of Cassio. “Damn her, lewd minx! Oh, damn her, damn her! Come, go with me apart. I will withdraw to furnish me with some swift means of death for the fair devil.” (54) Othello, speaking to Iago about Desdemona, calling her the wicked whore and saying Iago to come with him and think up some ways to kill that beautiful devil i.e. Desdemona (54). These lines elucidate that how