Essay answering: Can an argument be made that Othello is, ultimately, not so much about psychological experience in the sense of maladies and breakdowns as it is about a much older conflict-that between good and evil, innocence and corruption? In other words, perhaps the best lens through which to study the play is not the new-fangled science of mental disturbances (which post-dates Shakespeare by about three hundred years, after all), but rather the lens of morality? Note: remember that Othello himself says at the end of the play that he has no peculiar weaknesses or predispositions but that he was simply entrapped by one who was uniformly evil. Your answer to this question will certainly need to consider the adequacy of his final self-assessment.