Joel Nwamba Othello: Outcome Of The Tragic Hero

Joel Nwamba Othello the outcome of the tragic hero Mrs. Dimitrio
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

In William Shakespeare, Othello is well presented as an excellent leader, but a poor reasoner

yet his ideal of leadership shows he’s a powerful man in matters of wars and state where

relatively no one lies to Othello, it shows they all seem to respect him, friendship are never

examined in the play he thinks those who know him love him , the important evaluation of

Othello is that although he’s a leader and leads well or means well, Othello lacks good

Judgment and a common sense this is obvious in his final speech, he never fully realized or

takes responsibility
Lastly, Iago easily plays Othello when he begins planting further

suspicions. In act 3, scene 3, Iago mentions to Othello of what Cassio has being saying lately

during their sleep: Iago : “I lay with Cassio lately, And being troubled with raging tooth I could not

sleep. There is a kind of men so loose of soul that in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. One

of this kind is Cassio. In sleep I heard him say, ‘Sweet Desdemona, let us be wary, let us hide

our loves.’ And the, sir, he would grip and wring my hand, Cry, ‘O sweet creature!’ and then kiss

me hard, As if he pluck’d up kisses by the roots That grew upon my lips; then laid his leg over

my thigh, and sigh’d, and kiss’d, and then Cried, ‘Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor’.

(act33, scene 3, 414-427)

Othello: “O monstrous, monstrous!” (Act 3, scene 3,428) Othello’s curiosity reaches its peak,

When Iago tells him of what Cassio has been thinking in the chamber as they went to lay down

it further seeds more suspicions and doubts to Othello. Othello allowed himself to get the best

him, he was played by his own weakness which was his open and honest nature that
Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell! Yield up,

O love, thy crown and hearted throne to tyrannous hate! Swell, bossom, with thy fraught, for

‘tis of aspics’ tongues.(3,3,443-451)Othello now calls upon the forces of evil on his knees with

Iago he now let’s go of the honest nature he is to become an evil and violent man .Othello then

is convinced that Cassio was now seeing Desdemona and that the handkerchief was now in

Cassio’s hand and now vowed to kill both Cassio and Desdemona: “ I greet thy love, Not with

vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous; And will upon the instant put thee to’t. Within

these three days let me hear thee say That Cassio’s not alive” (3,3,471-473)

Iago: “ My friend is dead; ‘Tis done at your request. But let her live”.(3,3,475)

Othello: Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her, damn her! Come, go with me apart. I will withdraw

to furnishme with some swift means of death for the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.

(3,3,476-479) Othello here now orders for Cassio to be killed by Iago with in three days and as

of Iago he asks Othello to spare Desdemona’s life but Othello refuses and plans on killing