Is It Power of Words Which Destroy Othello or His Own Hubris?
Is it power of words, which destroy Othello or his own hubris?
Othello is one of Shakespeare’s finest plays, as it concentrates on a courageous’ general’s demise, physically and mentally. It could be argued that Othello bought his destruction on himself, by allowing himself to be poisoned by “Honest” Iago’s fluent rhymes of lies. However I will argue that it is infact his hubris, his overwhelming pride which infact causes his inevitable demise.
Harmatia is a term which was developed by Aristotle and is essentially the main principle when making a tragedy, it is usually translated as “Tragic flaw” it is the idea that the hero’s downfall is partially his fault, in this case Othello’s, it comes from free choice. And not of accident nor villainy (Iago’s power of words) it involves hubris (a characters fatal flaw), arguably Othello’s hubris is his arrogant pride.
In Othello we have both the general’s character flaw was that his pride didn’t allow him to be infulenced by noble-men in which Iago sent in order to persuade Othello to make Iago his lieutenant “three great ones of the city, in personal suit to make me his lieutenant, Off-capp’d to him” this then led to Iago feeling betrayed and wanting revenge for being disrespected and for his pride (his reputation in the army) being damaged.
The Aristotle belief that the tragedy was caused by the characters lack of judgement, is seen when Shakespeare allows Othello to listen and permit himself to be manipulated like the other characters in this play such as Brabantino, Roderigo and Emilia to Iago’s infectious words, which the audience already know will turn Othello against his beloved Desdemonda, this is shown when Othello says “What dost’ thou think?”
However if Othello did promote Iago to be his lieutenant, Iago would’ve carried on loyally serving Othello. Seeing as Shakespeare hasn’t given an alterior motive given in this play as to why Iago would want to betray Othello, or Cassio. After all of the year’s he
Othello is one of Shakespeare’s finest plays, as it concentrates on a courageous’ general’s demise, physically and mentally. It could be argued that Othello bought his destruction on himself, by allowing himself to be poisoned by “Honest” Iago’s fluent rhymes of lies. However I will argue that it is infact his hubris, his overwhelming pride which infact causes his inevitable demise.
Harmatia is a term which was developed by Aristotle and is essentially the main principle when making a tragedy, it is usually translated as “Tragic flaw” it is the idea that the hero’s downfall is partially his fault, in this case Othello’s, it comes from free choice. And not of accident nor villainy (Iago’s power of words) it involves hubris (a characters fatal flaw), arguably Othello’s hubris is his arrogant pride.
In Othello we have both the general’s character flaw was that his pride didn’t allow him to be infulenced by noble-men in which Iago sent in order to persuade Othello to make Iago his lieutenant “three great ones of the city, in personal suit to make me his lieutenant, Off-capp’d to him” this then led to Iago feeling betrayed and wanting revenge for being disrespected and for his pride (his reputation in the army) being damaged.
The Aristotle belief that the tragedy was caused by the characters lack of judgement, is seen when Shakespeare allows Othello to listen and permit himself to be manipulated like the other characters in this play such as Brabantino, Roderigo and Emilia to Iago’s infectious words, which the audience already know will turn Othello against his beloved Desdemonda, this is shown when Othello says “What dost’ thou think?”
However if Othello did promote Iago to be his lieutenant, Iago would’ve carried on loyally serving Othello. Seeing as Shakespeare hasn’t given an alterior motive given in this play as to why Iago would want to betray Othello, or Cassio. After all of the year’s he