The Tragic Hero Of Shakespeare's Othello

Tragedy of Othello

Although Othello has every reason to believe Iago, he is too quick to judge to believe that his wife is cheating on him. Desdemona is a pure honest soul that is caught up in the drama between Iago and Othello. She believes that if she continues to ask Othello to reinstate Cassio, then her lord would do it for her in which she later realizes that Iago is putting lies into her husband’s head about her cheating.
A tragic hero is a character that makes a judgement call that ends up being wrong and leads to their own destruction. What establishes Othello as a tragic hero is when he realizes that Iago is lying to him and that Desdemona isn’t cheating on him and he kills himself because he realizes that he couldn’t live without her. In Act IV, scene ii lines 322-357, “ Oh Fool! Oh Fool! Fool!” Is the lines that Othello uses when he realizes that Cassio is alive and Iago lied to him and that he actually believed that his innocent wife would cheat on him.
Accountability is when someone is responsible for something. Iago is responsible for telling Roderigo to wake up Brabantio (which is Desdemona’s father) and tell him that she is going behind his back and marrying Othello who is a black man that is twice her age. Act I, scene i lines
At first Othello couldn’t believe what Iago was saying was the truth until he finally sees it for himself and automatically assumes that Iago was being truthfully honest with him but he always trusted too much when it came to important events. As he goes to kill Desdemona,he kisses her and she wakes up wondering who was there. He is afraid to wake her because he knows he has to kill her because if he doesn’t then she will just cheat on other men. In Act V scene ii, lines 15-40 show that Othello is telling Desdemona that he has to kill her but she is pleading to not do it