The term lying truly only has one meaning, but when people say that someone is lying, the meaning can have a range of power behind it. For example, a person could tell a lie when he’s playing a trick on a friend where he holds both hands behind his back with an item in one and when the friend guesses the right hand the person just lies and denies it. A lie could be as small as that. That is truly a lie, but its meaning has little power. On the other hand a lie can be very powerful. Let’s say a person lies and the lie has severe effects and causes problems to everybody, like in the novel Othello by William Shakespeare, where the main character Othello lied throughout the whole story and deceived everyone. His lies and mischief caused all the other characters to hate and kill each other causing chaos. His lies throughout the novel caused deaths and terrible things to happen. The crimes Othello committed represented the worst types of lying that could be done by anyone.

Lying has all levels of strengths which makes the definition so hard to make out, but the true meaning of lying is when a person tells another person something that isn’t true or that never happened, usually used to hide the truth from someone because the person could be embarrassed, scared, angry, etc. Also could be used to shield another from the truth in order to save them from knowledge that would disappoint them or cause grief. Whether a lie be if you’re sick or not to get out of school, or that you’re innocent even though you committed a murder, there are many different forms of lying, but all share one meaning.

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