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Tragedy In Othello And Oedipus The King

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The plays Othello and Oedipus the King contain some differences and similarities. In the beginning, the set up of the plot depicts truth to the type of tragedy in the play. The tragedy is mainly shown by the drama whereby the main character is made to bear the excess sorrow as a result of moral weakness or flaw. Othello is the central character in the play Othello while the King is the main character in Oedipus the King. In both contexts, they suffer sorrow as the main consequence of tragic flaws or weakness (Yeats, Clark, & McGuire, 1989).
It is discovered that their fatal flaws are different since of their human nature. And even with the same tragic flaws, they were to fall into the same problem because of prophecy made on Oedipus, and he ignores it. On the other side …show more content…

That is the reason the situational irony works very well. The familiar story makes the ignorance of both characters real situation turn to be the irony of whatever they speak. Their chances to lead the society give the ‘attackers’ more power to ruin the people. For instance, the Apollo gained power over the city of Thebes in Oedipus the King while Lago over the individual who did not support him (Yeats, Clark, & McGuire, 1989).
Therefore, the central theme in both Oedipus the King and in Othello is the uncertain vision, and is treated in a different manner in Othello than in Oedipus the King. In Oedipus, the uncertain vision becomes the unavoidable stairs of destiny making the characters not to realize whatever is going behind them. In Othello, the main cause of the tragedy and the uncertain vision is named as the Lago.
Furthermore, Othello might manage to view what is happening but due to the ‘hot blood’ does not allow him. Oedipus is very careful and is trying his level bets to stop the investigation even if it causes him much consequence. In other words, Othello takes a step without doing a proper investigation and later never listens to a given

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