Othello and Antigone
Othello, takes place in Venice during an attack of the island of Cyprus . The
protagonist is Othello and The antagonist of the story is Iago, who wants
Othello to give him the rank of head luitenant but the position was given to
Cassio. Desdemona is Othello’s wife who is having an affair with Cassio.
Roderigo, is a character madley in love with Desdemona; and Emilia , who
is iago’s wife. The heart of this story is trajic. Although Othello is a noble
warrior, he is a jealous person . with this, most of the play portreys the factor
on jealousy which causes corruption. Many conflicts are found in Othello,
man vs. man is one . also, when Iago seeks revenge against Othello and
Cassio because of his hatred and jealousy for them. Person vs. himself is also
found when Othello has a problem with whether or not he should believe
that Desdemona is cheating on him. . one lesson , in which, readers can
learn from the play is that “jealousy causes corruption in many ways such as
dishonesty which was portrayed by Iago”.At the end of the play, Desdemona
dies, iago has no guilt ; even when iago was dieing , he doesn’t have any
remorse for anyone. However, Iago was not fully to blame for desdemona’s
death, Othello also caused Desdemona to die, his jealousy and his and
overzealous attidude cause it. Even in the end of the play , Othello doesn’t
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know what his drive and motivation for killing the woman of his life.
Shakespeare uses Othello’s diction to diplay his untrusted perception of his
wife.Another asset used by Shakespeare to contribute to the “depiction” of
Othello’s devastation is “Biblical allusions” which Othello draws to the
reader. There is a scripture in the Bible about Job, who God decides to test
by taking his riches, losing his loved ones and leaving him without anything.
Othello assumes and says that he would “rather have this man’s fortune than
the jealousy and pain that is inflicted upon his mind by Desdemona’s
supposed infidelity”. This is another great style Shakespeare uses to display
how tormented Othello is, which makes puts him in a state of rage which
makes the play more exciting .
A similar play which has the same view is the story Antigone. Antigone
displays many qualities that make it a great tragedy. Fear and pity was
achieved in this play when polynices was left without the proper burial after
his fathers death.Antigone , later has a plan to bury here brother Polynices
and also wants Isme to help her. but Isme is afraid to help her cause she
would most likely be put to death if done, because of the Kings orders.
Because the King was stubborn, He then looses his wife, son, and neice
Antigone in the end of this trajic result; This brings the 2 emotions of the
ending together, pity for the King and fear of not wanting it to happen to the
reader. The lesson learned show that “stubborness can sometimes blind you
to the affect of your actions.
Similarite within antigone and othello arise in the fact of how trajic they
end and in both stories the reader can feel a sence of pity and fear. The fact
that Othello is wavering between believing Iago and trusting his wife is
reflected in the imagery Shakespeare . The same went along in Antigone
when she was thinking about not burying her brother and live, or burying her
brother and be sentanced to death.
Shakespeare’s Othello, is famous for its depiction of “human nature”.
Perhaps because it has identified with Othello’s rage and feelings toward
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Desdamona, also, all can notice and relate with the jealousy Othello feels at
one point in the readers life. Mainly, to me, the book is enjoyable because of
Othello’s transformation from trust to raging jealousy. This has shown the
you can not trust everyone, because the end result could be disastrous, as
they were for Othello in the play.
I believe that Antigone is similar to the way of life in todays society.
Even the highest official in the United State, may have the same problem,
take for instance Mr. Bill Clinton, President of the United States. Bill
Clinton has to please his society, though is faced with a problem when he
had to pardon his wife with the involvment with the Whitwater scandal, if
convicted. He is punishing his wife hilary in an “indirect way” if Clinton
does not pardon her. In Antigone, The King also was put with great stress
with punishing his neice, the king though was put on with more stress cause
Antigone was talking to him with a great tone, which back then it was
considered unheard of talking to a king or man in such a way. Creon was so
upset at her that he didn’t even think death was the answer. I believe that
these two conflicts with Antigone and the world today cope together and
show that life back then and life today still have the same problems in society.
