Title: Othello The Tragic Hero Category:Literature / English Details: Words: 810 | Pages: 3.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Othello The Tragic Hero
Othello: The Tragic Hero
In William Shakespeare’s Othello, Othello is the tragic hero. He is a character of high stature who is destroyed by his surroundings, his own actions, and his fate. His destruction is essentially precipitated by his own actions, as well as by the actions of the characters surrounding him. The tragedy of Othello is not a fault of a single villain, but is rather a consequence of a wide range of feelings, judgments and misjudgments, and attempts for personal justification exhibited …showed first 85 words of 810 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 810 total…to die upon a kiss" (V, ii, line 413-414).
Othello was jealous. He thought his wife was cheating on him and he thought he was killing for justice. He said that he loved not wisely but too well. It was not very smart of him to believe another man about something he should know more about. This is why I think of Othello as a tragic hero in this play. His character was brought to light of a horrible situation by a deceitful devil named Iago.
