The emotion elicited from the destruction of a happy marriage by the villain at the greatest extent is sadness, possibly due to the fact that the outcome is highly predictable. One may then find himself detached from the play as there is no palpable tension felt by the audience and therefore there is no culmination in the sense of helplessness and inevitability which engender tragedy. What, then, makes Othello a tragedy? It is no longer the mere fact that Iago destroys the blissful marriage between Othello and Desdemona, however, it relates to the striking revelation that in reality Othello himself is to be held culpable for this destruction through his murder of wife, Desdemona. With this, the element of tragic irony is introduced where the hero is responsible for destroying his own marriage and hence Othello is evidently a tragedy.
In Othello, as in any Shakespearean tragedy, the sense of tragic irony stems from the inherent tragic flaw of the hero that will consequently......
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