¶ … cause of Othello's tragedy: a fine line, not between love and hate, but too heavy a line between men and women
Othello: "It is the cause, oh my soul"
Act 5, Scene II
What is the cause of the bloody end of "Othello?" Othello has one of the most horrifying ends of all of Shakespeare's tragedies -- a man smothers a woman he apparently loves, who gave up everything to marry him, and then kills himself when he discovers that she was chaste. Is it the cause of this terrible rooted in Othello's soul? The protagonists himself suggests that the cause is the thin line that exists between love and hate, as he looms over what will become his bride's death-bed at the end of the tragedy that bears his name, and his dying words are that he is a man who loved too much rather than too little. In the eyes of Shakespeare's dramatic, tragic hero Othello, this may indeed seem to be the case, given his natural tendency to self-valorization. After all, it was Othello's stories that won Desdemona's heart in the first place. However, one must not accept Othello's misguided self- perceptions at face value. One could just as easily suggest that the cause of Desdemona's death and Othello's fall is not in Othello's soul, but that the cause is in Othello and Desdemona's society, not in this fallen husband's divided soul.
The tragedy of "Othello" is set in Venice an almost entirely male-dominated, public society where women and female affairs matter little, and male, military matters count for more than anything. Women, as evidenced in Desdemona's fate, pass from their father's to their husband's house, and factor little as real actors of political significance. This is one reason why Othello is so dismissive...
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