Category: Othello
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Villains in Williams Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ and John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi
The concept of tragedy within plays is to highlight the dramatic style of humanity, through our encounters with sorrow and terrible events. Specifically, in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies, this approach to tragedy was filled with dynamics based upon the characters of the plays actions. Often, the source of such tragedies stemmed from the conspiring roles…
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Essay on Othello as a Tragic Hero
A man who is virtuous and has many sympathetic traits, a person with flaws people would consider fatal, a person wounded by experience: that person is a tragic hero, and a tragic hero is perfectly shown by Shakespeare’s Othello. Othellos past is the reason he is the way he is today, his past is the…