Othello
(1604)
Another great tragedy is “Othello, the Moor of Venice”. This is also a humanist
tragedy. Certain elements of the plot were borrowed by Shakespeare from an
Italian source, where the Moor of Venice had been depicted as a rather primitive
soldier whose dominating passion was jealousy. Shakespeare’s Othello is quite
different. Shakespeare’s Othello is a great man and a great warrior, and as many of
the really great men he is too noble-minded to mistrust those whom he loves. As
A.S. Pushkin said: “Othello is not jealous by nature, on the contrary, he is trustful”.
He values sincerity and loftiness of mind above all other human qualities, and he
loves Desdemona so dearly just because he finds her to be the very embodiment of
these high qualities.
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