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Brief analysis of OTHELLO
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Othello's Tragic Flaw
The extravagant language and literary techniques used in Shakespeare's
Othello enhance the settings, characters, and themes. Othello, an
intricate tragedy about good versus evil, loyalty, love, sexual
jealousy, and appearance versus reality, is told in a first person
point of view. The play is entitled Othello and the plot and action
encompasses him, thus supporting his position of protagonist.
The play takes place during the Renaissance in Venice, Italy and in
Cyprus over three days. The opening scene of Othello is very dramatic
as it begins in the middle of a disagreement or argument between two
of the characters, Iago and Roderigo. Iago is a corrupt individualist
who bitterly despises Othello, and his villainous scheme for revenge
results in the deaths of Othello, Desdemona, his own wife and
Roderigo, a suitor of Desdemona.
There is suspense as Iago and Roderigo talk of two men. One who is
named and another who is referred to as ‘he’ or ‘him’. This creates an
enigma or feeling of suspense as the audience wonder who ‘he’ is. The
reason being that Iago presents ‘him’ in a negative way, “…he, as
loving his own pride and purposes…”. This shows Othello or ‘he’ to be
boastful and perhaps even egotistical and full of pride. The enigma
continues when Iago says, “I follow to serve my turn upon him”. The
audience find this chilling, and wonder how this storyline will
develop and how Iago will take revenge on Othello.
In the time this play was written, even the Queen was xenophobic,
“(banishing) the great number of niggers and black moors which are
crept into this realm…who are fostered and relieved here to the...
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“whore”, that Othello has accused her of being. “Such as she said my
lord did say I was”. Othello kills this naïve, innocent, good woman
who he still loves passionately. “This sorrow’s heavenly; It strikes
were it doth love.”
The ending of the play highlights the fact that Iago’s destruction of
Othello and Desdemona was so totally pointless. He never gave a real
intention, only vague suspicions that “twixt my sheets he’s
(Othello’s) done my office” and because Othello promoted Cassio above
him. Iago does not seem to get any pleasure from the outcome of his
plan, although this may be because he has been found out. The death of
these two noble, basically good people, and Emilia, seem by the end to
have been for no reason at all, Othello demands one but Iago only
replies “What you know, you know”.