Talking about tragic hero, it is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction. There are a lots of famous heroes can be classified as a tragic hero, including Hamlet, Romeo, and Julius Caesar. They all have a sad ending, and they fall from a highly position to the hell throughout the book. For instance, Romeo was the son of the Capulet, a general and powerful lord, but he made a huge flaw about fall in love with Juliet, then he began to degenerated, and eventually committed suicide. Similarly, Shakespeare’s Othello is a moor general of Venetian. He marries Desdemona, senator Brabantio’s daughter. Iago, who hates Othello because he gave the job to an unexperienced people called Cassio. Therefore …show more content…
Like Othello, he is a good general and a brave fighter. However, he’s blind to reality and emotional characteristic lead him to his fallacy. “Very obedient.--Proceed you in your tears.--/Concerning this, sir--Oh, well-painted passion!...Get you away/I’ll send for you anon.--Sir, I obey the mandate/And will return to Venice.--Hence, avaunt”(Shakespeare 4.1.207-11)! Othello cried to Desdemona after he was misleading by Iago hearing Cassio’s laughing about cheating with “Desdemona”, but truly Cassio was talking about Bianca, his secret lover. On the other hand, this can be also found as a tragic hero. “the change in the hero's fortunes must be not from misery to happiness, but on the contrary from happiness to misery; and the cause of it must lie not in any depravity, but in some great error on his part”(Reeves 173). A tragic hero does not fall immediately from heaven to hell. Instead, his or her blindness of reality gradually leads him to the darkness. Although Iago had a good plan for his revenge, but Othello’s blindness to reality is an even more important reason for his fall. If he chooses to believe his true lover, Desdemona instead of Iago, tragedy will never happen. So his blindness to reality is another reason that cause his