Posted by Angel on July 05, 1998 at 06:08:02:

In Reply to: Critics, what do they know? posted by J.H.P. on July 03, 1998 at 14:57:04:

I think that Othello's trouble is that he is an outsider. When he is in Venice he can ignore this part of himself because the rest of society (except perhaps Iago) has come to accept his difference. When He is in Cyprus, Iago illuminates his difference to everyone else thus causing Othello to doubt himself and arouse suion in himself about Desdemona.

Othello is not a "hero" in the good sense. He is a tragic hero, and therefore undergoes a huge amount of sorrow and grief. His actions appear to make the audience pity him as they would pity a character that was a villian. Iago, on the other hand, inspires us and fills us with awe. Perhaps Shakespeare made Othello black so that he looked evil and sinister, and made Iago white so that he looked innocent and true.

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