Othello, the moral dilemma comes by way of a villain, Iago. Iago wishes to be the person with the power and as long as Othello is the general, Iago will never be able to have the power he desires. Iago and Roderigo go to Brabantio's (senator, father to Desdemona) house to inform him that his daughter has left in the night to be with Othello. However, Brabantio eventually gives Othello permission to have his daughter. This enrages Iago but he keeps it hid so that he can use his cunning and devious ways to devise another plan to remove Othello from the position he desires. Iago devises a plan to get Othello to believe that Desdemona is cheating on him with Cassio. However, just when it seems that Iago's plan is picture perfect it all blows up in his face but not before Othello kills Desdemona. When the play ends all the major characters in Othello are dead, including Iago and his wife Emilia (Desdemona's handmaid).In both plays the major moral dilemma was a form of greed. In Dr. Faustus the character, Faustus wants extensive knowledge to use for his own benefit. In Othello, Iago's greed or hunger for power drives him and he doesn't care who he hurts or how badly as long as he can get to his goal. Both, Faustus and Iago went to the extremes to get what they wanted and both had to pay the ultimate price in the end, Faustus lost his soul, and Iago lost his life....
