I've always found it interesting the way Shakespeare stories never stay happy. They usually begin with a happy occasion and the main characters all seem so happy together and that nothing could possibly ruin that. However, we all know that their happiness does not last. Eventually someone dies and everything is in uproar. It is funny that we think of these stories as classic love stories when most end in tragedy. I would like to think that all happy occasions in my life will not end in death and sorrow just a short time later, but it seems like for Shakespeare's characters there is no hope. As I have never read Othello before but have read many other of Shakespeare's works; I cannot help notice how happy the couple of Othello and Desdemona seem to be, and how I know from how Shakespeare writes that this happiness cannot last long. I wonder what tragedy he will create to ruin their happiness.
I really think it would be unfortunate to be a character in one of Shakespeare's plays as happiness rarely lasts and even what seems like the happiest of endings, it is usually just the beginning. I really feel sorry for the couple in this story whose happiness surely will be short lived.
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I never thought of the fact that Shakespeare usually ends his plays with tragedy, and you are right; I don't want to see the love of Othello and Desdemona crushed by tragedy. It almost seems taunting that the reader must read such a happy beginning, yet expect tragedy from the same play.
thanks jenny! this blog inspired me to write mine! Shakespeare does write many happy stories as well as tragedies. Though his most popular works, Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, and Othello are all tragedies. He wrote comidies as well, like Much Ado about Nothing. Its a great play!
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