Though he is more poetic than other Shakespeare’s heroes yet he does not perceive the softness & tenderness of love. His imaginative approach is not meditative just like Hamlet but is of practical one. He had been wandering in the deserts, had been having magic stories, experiences of slavery, his sojourn in Apallo, had been taking part is battles and sieges.Īll these experiences make him a romantic hero or figure. Othello had a great experience of war life and adventures. Here he could not bear any more delay in taking revenge & he does this in a decisive manner. This statement is absolutely right because the whole of the tragedy lies in it and his nature was completely inclined towards jealousy. The credibility of the play and the success of Iago’s plot are closely connected with this character Othello describes himself as:………… Othello’s ego dominates over his love and he makes decisions not by heart but by brain.
#Othello character analysis full
lago, who does not know about the a.b.c of love but is destroyed by the power of love: lago by heart is loveless who does not think of those loveful heart’s passions of Othello & Desdemona because his heart is full of hatred & malice. Owing to the intensity of this egotism, he murders his loving wife who was once the queen of his dreams.īradley rightly says that this is the tragedy of assassination of love by non-love. In fact, it is his egotism which makes lago’s way easy to do his work. When the pressure is built up, Othello’s weaknesses are revealed and his self-idealization becomes blindness and his nobility changes into a brutal egotism. Othello is unable to recognize the true identity of lago who spoils the husband & wife’s true relation by creating doubts & suspicions about Desdemona’s chastity & purity of life in Othello’s mind. Though apparently lago is serving Othello in faithfulness but inwardly he is an opponent & jealous to him & is ready to finish his life at any cost. This play is based on the relationship of husband & wife in which both are sincere, loving & caring to one another but later husband’s love is destroyed & spoiled by a jealous character lago. Though he is a master of martial arts & adventures yet he is totally unfit & ignorant to understand the tender, loyal & sincere sentiments & passions of his wife. He just hears only lago’s statement & then idealizes himself all about his wife’s unfaithfulness. His real tragic flaw exists in his self idealization. He never ever imagines a single spot on her character. His love for Desdemona is sensual as well as passive. He loves his wife by the core of his heart. According to Leavis, the shortcomings & egotism of Othello’s character, are themselves responsible for his tragedy. He says that the main implication & complexity of the plays are within lago’s character.
As far as Bradely is concerned, he takes Othello entirely as blameless & sinless. Some of them are of the view that he has a least heroic quality of Shakespearean heroes of tragic vision. Most of the critics have different views & ideas about this character. Alt the characters: directly or indirectly linked with this supreme powerful figure. The tragic concept of Shakespeare is very much prominent in him just like other Shakespearean heroes Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and Julièus Caesar. It is very difficult to think that this play can be without him because the play deals with his sufferings, problems & tragic death. He is the central character to whom all the minor or major characters revolve around because the action of the drama revolves around him. It is right to say that Character sketch of Othello is a most significant character of William Shakespeare.
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