"O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell'st sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!" IV.ii. 67-69
Theme was a trouble for me to identify in this play. It seemed as though it was Iago planning to kill everyone, and then even more people were killed than he expected. Where's the theme in that? I'm hoping someone will be able to enlighten me on the theme of the play tomorrow. Really, I only have a slight guess as to what it may be. The play is obviously a tragedy, but I wonder if the theme could be tragic as well. It seems to be a reocurring "theme" in Shakespeare's plays and is especially shown in Othello. If the theme is simply the tragedy of human error, then the theme is the driving force behind the entire play. Each action Iago makes to advance the plot is based upon Othello's tragic flaw. The quote above shows Othello's tragic flaw in which he has been convinced unfoundedly by Iago that Desdemona has been cheating on him. Hopefully I'm not too far off on this one.
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