Write a paragraph showing how Othello's deterioration of language reflects the fact that jealousy marrs the relationship between himself and Desdemona

One of the ways Shakespeare presents the way jealousy mars the love between Othello and Desdemona in this passage and elsewhere in the play is through the deterioration of Othello’s language as his jealousy deepens. At the beginning of the play when his love is still pure, Othello speaks in beautiful “Othello Music”, as it was dubbed by Wilson Knight. When reuniting with Desdemona after their travels, Othello passionately declares “If it were now to die/ ‘Twere now to be most happy; for I fear/ My soul hath her content so absolute/ That not another comfort like to this/ Succeeds in unknown fate.” Shakespeare’s perfect, smooth flowing iambic pentameter highlights the wholeness and beauty of Othello’s untainted love, and the rich poetry and elegance of his speech emphasizes the fullness of his passion. Therefore, Shakespeare presents to the audience a whole, unmarred love.However, when jealousy blights Othello’s love, his language immediately begins to disintegrate and become foul, animalistic and sexual, and echoes Iago’s own language. In the passage, Iago describes potential men sleeping with Desdemona as “as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys”, which Othello then goes on to directly mirror when he shouts “Goats and monkeys!” during a rage. As Iago is the most evil and tainted character in the play, the fact that Othello loses his beautiful language and instead takes on the lewd vocabulary of the greatest corrupting figure in the play highlights how his jealousy has completely marred and tainted the love he feels for Desdemona to the point of its destruction. Thus, Shakespeare presents the central relationship in the play as being marred by jealousy.