![]() ![]() ![]() He is very powerful at first, and no one thinks that his life can end tragically, as it happens during the conclusion. The anagnorisis is experienced when Othello comes to realize the evil in Iago and that his wife is innocent. Again, Othello’s plot has catharsis experience at the climax of the drama as the play ends. This happens because he has the quality of hamartia leading him to suffer shame at the end of the drama. Othello is a tragic hero since he fulfills all the three requirements offered by Aristotle since he is initially a person possessing noble status but later falls to a shameful one. The third ingredient is anagnorisis, which involves the revelation of some facts that were never realized before to the character considered as the hero. The other one is catharsis in which the emotions of the audience change in a manner that makes them learn a lesson from the drama. According to Aristotle, three main things constitute a tragic drama such as hamartia, which is the tragic flaw in the character that faces the downfall. ![]() The play is full of suspense and contains the theme of jealousy, intrigue, suspense, and murder creating a great tragedy as per Aristotle's order. The main character who is the hero in the drama faces trouble at the end of the play when he kills his wife suspecting her of being unfaithful. ![]() William Shakespeare’s play Othello, the Moor of Venice concerns the downfall of Othello who was a Moorish General and can be considered a tragedy. ![]()
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