Why did a mature, experienced person, who had longed for love for so long, having received what he wanted, not try to save it? Why did he so quickly and so strongly believe in all Iago’s words and reject Desdemona’s excuses? How strange is it that it was so easy to deceive yourself? Well, such an experienced man cannot be so simple-minded! It seems to me that Othello had one very bad habit - the habit of suffering. And he couldn’t part with her. Othello is a Moor in the Venetian service, and besides, “I’m black!” He constantly feels different from others. He is of royal blood, was separated from his family at an early age, from the age of seven, and his life was full of hardships, constant struggle for survival and loneliness. According to the plot, he talks about his suffering to Desdemona, but does not talk about any other family or love for a woman. So it didn't happen. He just waited and dreamed, like any normal person. “I spoke about disastrous events, about terrible incidents in the seas and in the field, about storming breaches under impending death, about how I was boldly captured and sold into slavery, ransomed from there. And what I saw on my travels. Here about large caves, about deserts, about wild rocks, cliffs that have grown into the sky...... About cannibals that eat each other... And I often stole her tear, remembering some adversity from my young years.” That is, war, captivity, wanderings and at the same time he was able to achieve a high social status, which he values ​​very much. Only I haven’t learned to love! He never had such an opportunity. There was only a big dream about something pure, sincere and beautiful, different from the world in which he was used to living. And then it happened! “She loved me for my torment, and I loved her for my compassion for them.” The one I had dreamed and strived for appeared in reality. Pure, innocent, with an open heart, who knows how to love, who has overcome prejudices and, for the sake of love for him, went against her father’s will! (who, by the way, could not survive this and died later) But the long-term habit of suffering and torment has not gone away! It is akin to drug addiction, and will not disappear overnight. What to do with that feeling you've been waiting for so long? How to use it (sorry for the cynicism)? How to live without suffering? What, in the end, should we do next with Desdemona? Be in love? But as? And he was drawn to the usual, painful emotion! Othello is afraid to believe that they really love him, he thinks about the fact that he is black and much older, about the difference in habits, about social status (do not forget that Desdemona is the daughter of a senator, and Othello the mercenary). Besides, “If I had not loved Desdemona tenderly, I would not have oppressed my homeless freedom for all the riches of the sea.” It was this dependence on a bad habit that forced Othello’s consciousness to seize on Iago’s slander. No matter how Desdemona justified herself, no matter how hard her maid Emilia tried, he didn’t want to believe it! He didn’t want to, he didn’t even try to doubt Iago’s words. Othello does not try to find any evidence of his wife's innocence! He begins to furiously destroy what he does not know how to handle and does not know what to do. That same blinding jealousy was salvation from a dream come true. And then it’s a matter of technique. He devalued Desdemona’s feelings, accused her, pronounced a sentence, first strangled her, but not completely, then stabbed her with a dagger. A furious desire for the familiar state of suffering and loneliness! Only the usual drug is already unbearable. The dose is too high! Later, as we remember, all charges against Desdemona are dropped and now Othello already hears them and understands everything wonderfully the first time. There is no need to convince and beg him to believe! Iago confesses everything, he is arrested and taken away, Othello is disarmed. The drug in the form of “the need for a habitual state of suffering” has won! The dream come true is no longer there! There will be no other dream! Feelings of guilt and shame are added. Life, in principle, loses all meaning and the resulting torment from all this is unbearable! Othello commits suicide. The moment came when there was so much torment and suffering that it was no longer possible to endure.