The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

Both. In a way. He is jealous of Othello because he has everything he wants: a high rank and a beautiful wife from a upper class family. He is jealous of Cassio because Othello has promoted him to Lieutenant and not him.

Iago

16th century

To Iago. Iago does manage to get Desdemona safely to Cyprus. He doesn't do much about getting her back.

Brabantio warns Othello that if his daughter, Desdemona, deceived him in order to marry Othello, then she can just as easily deceive Othello.

Yes, Iago's manipulation significantly diminished Othello's sense of agency and responsibility. By expertly playing on Othello's insecurities and planting false evidence of Desdemona's infidelity, Iago orchestrated a series of events that led Othello to act irrationally. This manipulation ultimately distorts Othello's judgment, making it difficult for him to discern truth from deception, thereby absolving him of full responsibility for his tragic actions. However, Othello's choices still reflect his internal vulnerabilities, suggesting a complex interplay between manipulation and personal accountability.

The feelings of the characters change as the play develops. That's why it is a good play. Even Desdemona, who does not change much, reacts to the change in Othello with disbelief, shock and hurt. These are not feelings she has at the beginning of the play. Of course at all times she loves Othello very deeply, more deeply than anyone else can understand.

Iago wanted to make Othello jealous of Cassio. Had he simply said "Cassio is having an affair with your wife", Othello could have dismissed it as a lie or a mistake. But by saying "I'm sure there is nothing going on between Cassio and your wife" Iago gets Othello to suspect Desdemona and to build up his suspicions on his own.

Desdemona

Iago brings Othello his handkerchief that Othello has given Desdemona and tells him it was in Cassio's house.

This is what jealousy can do to a person, it will eat away and drive a person to commit murder for no reason whatsoever.

Othello was a moor and a general in the Venetian Military.

about the respect from the duke , if I remember correctly it was because of his

success as a general

He plans to wreck it.

No, Othello does not gouge his eyes in the play. Instead, he takes his own life by stabbing himself after realizing the tragic consequences of his actions, including the murder of his wife, Desdemona. The theme of sight and blindness is prevalent, as Othello's inability to see the truth leads to his downfall. However, the act of gouging out eyes is not part of the narrative.

The translation to Othello is the Moor of Venice. It is based on an Italian short story called Un Capitano Moro.

Othello

The advice that overwhelmed Othello was to kill Desdemona and he will take care of Cassio

Jealousy. Another theme is honesty and dishonesty.

More than anything, his humility. Humility is a good quality, but Iago makes Othello's lack of pride work against him. When it comes to fighting in a battle or dealing with a load of hoodlums in the street, Othello is all confidence: he knows how to deal with those things and he knows he knows it. However, in matters of love, he is not so sure. He has reached middle age without really having to deal with women. His relationship with Desdemona starts off with him telling her stories of his life. He isn't trying to woo her, to pick her up or in any way get her to love him. But she does love him. Othello is amazed that she should fall for someone who is old, who is not of her class, who is a foreigner and has an unpopular skin colour. Why should this wonderful young woman pick him of all people?

We can see through Desdemona's eyes past these superficial qualities to the qualities of the man within. Othello is competent, commanding and very human. His very humility makes him a good commander and leader. It also makes him doubt whether a woman like Desdemona could love someone like him, a doubt which Iago exploits and turns to the certainty that she must love someone who appears to be more deserving--someone like Cassio.

In Othello more than any Shakespeare play we see the pointlessness of the "tragic flaw" type of analysis, which tries to make the plays into parables designed to convey trite bits of morality. The characteristic which leads to Othello's demise is a virtue, but as those compassionate and generous souls who have been conned by phoney charities know, even virtues can be exploited by the wicked. Both Othello and Desdemona are very good people, and yet their doom overtakes them anyway, and in part because they are so good. That's what makes it so heart-wrenching.

Othello's tragic flaw would most likely be his jealousy. This was brought on by simple persuasion by the character Iago. Even though Iago used extreme manipulation to get Othello to be jealous, Iago did not really have to try very hard to get Othello in a jealous state of mind. Othello was blinded by his jealousy which led him down a path of constant questioning of his wife and his friend/officer, Cassio. Throughout the play we see Othello sink deeper and deeper into a cloud of doubt which eventually leads him to kill not only his wife but also himself. So it can be said that Othello's jealousy and inability to see past it remains the reason for his downfall.

An alternative interpretation, which if memory serves me was first suggested by James Joyce, is that Othello's tragic flaw was loss of faith in life, and not jealousy. Othello was clearly not a jealous man, as evidenced by the difficulty Iago had in convincing him of Desdemona's unfaithfulness - something Othello would never have dreamed of. The tragedy was that he allowed lies to undermine his faith in life - his entire world view. In doing so, he destroyed that which he loved most.

NO! Othello is DEFINITELY a tragedy.

At the end of the play they are both dead. Assuming that they are in a Catholic country (as Venice and its colonies certainly were) they would be buried separately. Othello, as a suicide, could not be buried in consecrated ground, but Desdemona would be buried in a proper cemetery.