“Desdemona, won't you liberate me? When I'm haunted by your ancient history. Close these green eyes and watch over as I sleep.” This is a song lyric from the sogn Send Them Off! by the band Bastille, these lyrics show that the band believes Othello’s tragic flaw is jealousy, which is referred to by Iago as the green-eyed monster. The focus of this essay will be to prove these three things: Othello is a true tragic hero, his tragic flaw is his jealousy, and he is the central character within the play. First, Othello can be categorized as a tragic hero because at the start of the play he has it all; wealth, fame, and a new wife, but by the end of the play he is left with nothing to live for so he commits suicide. Near the end of the play Othello
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Iago is jealous of Cassio being Lieutenant, Roderigo is jealous of Desdemona and Othello’s marriage, and later is jealous of Cassio’s supposed affair with Desdemona, but the one that resonates the most is Othello’s jealous rage when he finally believes Desdemona and Cassio or in love. One of Othello’s lines is, “Think’st thou I’ld make a life of jealousy”(III, 3, Line 178); even though on the surface it seems like he is simply asking Iago a question, it seems he already knows he is jealous but he wants Iago to say it as well. Othello’s jealousy is what ultimately brings him crashing to the ground. Others argue that it is his gullibility to Iago that is his tragic flaw, but Iago’s plans were never meant to go as for as the did, he just is incredibly lucky. Iago even warns Othello of jealousy, “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock…”(III, 3, Line 165-166). This again proves that jealousy is Othello’s tragic flaw because what Iago is so skilled at is finding a person’s weakest link and using it against them. In Othello’s case he marries a woman who left her father in the night without looking back, and so he never fully trusts her making his jealousy that much easier to control and
Another argument for Othello being a tragic hero is that the …show more content…
Iago is jealous of Cassio being Lieutenant, Roderigo is jealous of Desdemona and Othello’s marriage, and later is jealous of Cassio’s supposed affair with Desdemona, but the one that resonates the most is Othello’s jealous rage when he finally believes Desdemona and Cassio or in love. One of Othello’s lines is, “Think’st thou I’ld make a life of jealousy”(III, 3, Line 178); even though on the surface it seems like he is simply asking Iago a question, it seems he already knows he is jealous but he wants Iago to say it as well. Othello’s jealousy is what ultimately brings him crashing to the ground. Others argue that it is his gullibility to Iago that is his tragic flaw, but Iago’s plans were never meant to go as for as the did, he just is incredibly lucky. Iago even warns Othello of jealousy, “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock…”(III, 3, Line 165-166). This again proves that jealousy is Othello’s tragic flaw because what Iago is so skilled at is finding a person’s weakest link and using it against them. In Othello’s case he marries a woman who left her father in the night without looking back, and so he never fully trusts her making his jealousy that much easier to control and