Othello, takes place in Venice during an attack of the island of Cyprus . The protagonist is Othello and The antagonist of the story is Iago, who wants Othello to give him the rank of head luitenant but the position was given to Cassio. Desdemona is Othello’s wife who is having an affair with Cassio. Roderigo, is a character madley in love with Desdemona; and Emilia , who is iago’s wife. The heart of this story is trajic. Although Othello is a noble warrior, he is a jealous person . with this, most of the play portreys the factor on jealousy which causes corruption.
Many conflicts are found in Othello, man vs. man is one . also, when Iago seeks revenge against Othello and Cassio because of his hatred and jealousy for them. Person vs. himself is also found when Othello has a problem with whether or not he should believe that Desdemona is cheating on him. . one lesson , in which, readers can learn from the play is that “jealousy causes corruption in many ways such as dishonesty which was portrayed by Iago”. At the end of the play, Desdemona dies, iago has no guilt ; even when iago was dieing , he doesn’t have any remorse for anyone.
However, Iago was not fully to blame for desdemona’s death, Othello also caused Desdemona to die, his jealousy and his and overzealous attidude cause it. Even in the end of the play , Othello doesn’t know what his drive and motivation for killing the woman of his life. Shakespeare uses Othello’s diction to diplay his untrusted perception of his wife. Another asset used by Shakespeare to contribute to the “depiction” of Othello’s devastation is “Biblical allusions” which Othello draws to the reader. There is a scripture in the Bible about Job, who God decides to test y taking his riches, losing his loved ones and leaving him without anything.
Othello assumes and says that he would “rather have this man’s fortune than the jealousy and pain that is inflicted upon his mind by Desdemona’s supposed infidelity”. This is another great style Shakespeare uses to display how tormented Othello is, which makes puts him in a state of rage which A similar play which has the same view is the story Antigone. Antigone displays many qualities that make it a great tragedy. Fear and pity was achieved in this play when polynices was left without the proper burial after is fathers death.
Antigone , later has a plan to bury here brother Polynices and also wants Isme to help her. ut Isme is afraid to help her cause she would most likely be put to death if done, because of the Kings orders. Because the King was stubborn, He then looses his wife, son, and neice Antigone in the end of this trajic result; This brings the 2 emotions of the ending together, pity for the King and fear of not wanting it to happen to the reader. The lesson learned show that “stubborness can sometimes blind you Similarite within antigone and othello arise in the fact of how trajic they nd and in both stories the reader can feel a sence of pity and fear.
The fact that Othello is wavering between believing Iago and trusting his wife is reflected in the imagery Shakespeare . The same went along in Antigone when she was thinking about not burying her brother and live, or burying her Shakespeare’s Othello, is famous for its depiction of “human nature”“. Perhaps because it has identified with Othello’s rage and feelings toward Desdamona, also, all can notice and relate with the jealousy Othello feels at one point in the readers life. Mainly, to me, the book is enjoyable because of Othello’s transformation from trust to raging jealousy.
This has shown the you can not trust everyone, because the end result could be disastrous, as I believe that Antigone is similar to the way of life in todays society. Even the highest official in the United State, may have the same problem, take for instance Mr. Bill Clinton, President of the United States. Bill Clinton has to please his society, though is faced with a problem when he had to pardon his wife with the involvment with the Whitwater scandal, if convicted. He is punishing his wife hilary in an “indirect way” if Clinton does not pardon her.
In Antigone, The King also was put with great stress with punishing his neice, the king though was put on with more stress cause Antigone was talking to him with a great tone, which back then it was considered unheard of talking to a king or man in such a way. Creon was so upset at her that he didn’t even think death was the answer. I believe that these two conflicts with Antigone and the world today cope together and show that life back then and life today still have the same problems in society.
