Hedonism In Othello

In the very end, Othello tragically dies alongside his wife. He tragically fell from being the prestigious Moor to a murderous lunatic who believed in falsifications of his own wife. His focus in negativities, such as heavily viewing the possibility of his wife being unfaithful towards him instead of earnestly focusing on the positive possibility that Desdemona, his wife, is actually remaining faithful towards him, and the abundant hedonism in the play, such as his drastic desire for vengeance and knowledge and the desire of Iago, led to Othello’s downfall. Ergo, Othello is the tragic hero in William Shakespeare’s play, Othello, the Moor of Venice. Since Othello focused on the negative possibility, instead of being open to a positive possibility, and since hedonism was evident in himself and Iago, Othello, a tragic hero in the Aristotelian tragedy, obviously fell from being a man whom the senators revered to a man who was wifeless and powerless and who committed suicide.
By Othello focusing on the negative outcome, namely, his wife being unfaithful towards him, instead of the possible positive outcome of Desdemona being faithful towards him, Othello underwent a tragedy. At first, Othello seemingly …show more content…
By not thinking earnestly believing that there is a positive outcome in his predicament, Othello strongly doubted his friend, Cassio, and his wife, Desdemona. In addition, Othello did not thoroughly consider of the likelihoods. Instead, he acted upon his passions, and he desired to satisfy them. As a whole, Shakespeare writes an Aristotelian by including a person of royalty, Othello, who has flaws that lead him to lose his royal position. Furthermore, the play includes that Othello learned and that he taught the audience what he learned: do not allow passions supersede the