"Moor, she was chaste. She loved thee, cruel Moor,
So come my soul to bliss as I speak true.
So speaking as I think, I die, I die."
(Emilia, V. ii. 248-250)
On page 1119, the book asks whether this play is a tragedy, comedy, melodrama or farce. It's almost humorous how tragic of a tragic play this is. In the last act, the bodies just kept piling up on the bed and at the end, it seemed like some sick game of Hamburger! Often in tragedies, there's a tragic hero. While at the start I would have said Othello was the hero, I know can see it is clearly Desdemona. She stood up to her father to marry the man she loved, stood faithfully by his side the whole play, and even in her murder, she saved her husband's skin. What's more heroic than saving those you love? Answer: nothing. That being said, it's pretty sad to see what happened to her love. It's pretty depressing to think the message of the play is that even in love there will be destruction. Is that the moral of the story? Well, it looks like you'll just have to read the next post!
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