"Blow me about in winds! Roast me in sulphur! Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire! O Desdemona! Desdemona! Dead! Oh! Oh! Oh!" V.ii.278-281
I'm starting to think that Shakespeare simply hates happiness. Every play of his ends in everything that could have gone wrong going wrong. The quote above depicts the final parts of the play where everything, in the eyes of the audience, just goes wrong. Whether you were rooting for Othello or Iago, both parties end up losing. It really just no longer shocks me after all the Shakesperian plays I've read. Othello was yet another one of Shakespeare's tragedies that followed this course. However, despite the way things turned out, I actually enjoyed this play. It probably is my favorite play of Shakespeare that I have read and one of my favorite works we've studied this year. Now that it's over, I'm interested to see others thoughts on the story and whether they enjoyed it or not.
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