Othello is Shakespeare's one of the great tragedies

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Pragnesh Patel

Tragedy in Othello

Othello is a unique play that exploits the extent to which a man is willing to make way for his selfish motives. The Othello was written in Elizabethan time, a time when a husband was allowed to murder his wife if his wife is cheating on him, not if he doubts or thinks that his wife is cheating on him. In this play Othello is the main character, who suspects his wife’s honesty. Misusing his man powers, he murders his wife because he thought she was cheating on him, but he wasn’t sure about it. In his/her life, a person should be aware of the people he goes around with. Othello lacked all these characteristics and he ended up killing his innocent wife, Emilia and himself. During the course of the play, audience is introduced to the character called Iago. The whole time it seems like the Iago is the one who is most responsible for what happened in novel, but as a mater of fact Othello himself should be blamed for this tragedy. Due to his pride, jealousy and nature of over trusting people, Othello killed his innocent wife on base of his evil doubt and brought great tragedy to many people’s lives including himself.

First of all, Othello and Desdemona married each other against will of Desdemona’s father. While giving his daughter to Othello, Brabantio told him that “Look to her moor, if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceived her father, and may thee”. Othello counts this quote as proof of Desdemona being a betrayer and he doesn’t trust her. But if he would have come out of his mask of jealousy and pride and had looked at his father’s advice from another view he would have realized Desdemona’s love for him. It’s true that Desdemona deceived her father, but it doesn’t mean that she would betray averyone. Desdemona left her father for love of Othello, and that’s what concerns the most. Desdemona loved Othello a lot and she came out and said in front og everyone that she loves Othello and she was ready to leave her father, who raised her all his life. Since, Othello was surrounded by green eyed monster he wasn’t able to see Desdemona’s love for him. Desdemona prayed him to give him one more chance to prove her self innocent, but Othello found his promise to Othello more important that Desdemona’s love.

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It is true that Iago made all these plans about hurting people with use of his evil plans, but it was his own revenge. Iago was taking revenge from Othello for not choosing him as his lieutenant even though he had better practical knowledge on battles than Cassio. His unfair decision of making Cassio was Othello’s first step towards his tragedy and it developed further when Iago that Othello has bad relationship with his wife, Emilia. These splinted flint of fire in Iago’s house and Othello made Iago his and Cassio’s enemy. Iago’s revenge was his own concern and ...

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