Othello is introduced, at the beginning of the plays, as a black man who lives in Venice, Italy. He is known for his noble soul. Although he is black in skin, he had a white heart. In addition, he was brave and he became a leader in the Italian Army for he won many battles. However, by the end of the play, all these qualities, initially attributed to him, are put into question.
Throughout the play, Othello becomes more and more addicted to the venomous and bestial language of Iago .He swings crazily between the desire for blissful ignorance and the desperate consolation of knowing the imagined worst to be irrefutably true. Othello is, however, tragically corrupted now by Iago as he attempts to insult his beloved.
At the end of the play Othello comes to kill Desdemona he can only fulfill his dreadful task by killing her. He sees himself as the judge who should the act of justice he is convinced of her guilt .when Othello finds out that Desdemona was being faithful to him, he asks for forgiveness.
He is now convinced that Iago‘s spoken warning in the beginning of the play “I am not what I am” is clearly manifested. At the end, Othello shouts that he has been a fool as he was blindly guided by Iago’s villainous machinations and finally he kills himself. However, he does not assume full responsibility over what he called his foolish actions. His insistence on his being a “honorable murder” implies that he does not put all the blame on himself. In addition, he also emphasizes on his wish to be remembered “for who I am”, which means that he believes that his cruelty and murder should not defame his reputation as a noble Moor.
Works Cited
Shakespeare, William. Othello. Ed. Saddleback Classics. New York: Saddleback Publishing, 2003.
“Summary Act 5”. The Literature Network, 2012. n. d. n.p.Web. 23 Apl. 2013.
