A Critical Study of the Play Othello

Abstract

Othello is the only one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies to the based on a story dealing with the contemporary world. Othello is a cosmetic tragedy. Shakespeare did not divide the human nature into the masculine and the feminine; but the aspersed in woman and man a unifying force of the two opposing gender impulses. To talk about his Shakespeare's women is to talk about his men, because he refused to separate their worlds physically, intellectually or spiritually. The Shakespearean conception of tragedy was that the closer the relationship between persons of the opposite sexes, with the interchange of essential characteristics of predominance of reason in man and emotion in woman the result would be surely the occurring of tragedy in their lives.