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I found the end of the play to be very interesting. I thought that it was going to end with Iago just dieing but really everyone dies except for Cassio. Although the ending was not what I expected it to be, it was a fit ending. It somewhat teaches a lesson to the readers but to a more extreme level than we would take it in todays society. I was very suprised that Othello would kill his own wife in spite of a rumor that was not proven to be completely true. Other than that I found the ending to be an eye opener.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I thought that the ending was kind of surprising. I honestly didn't expect Roderigo to come back into the story. Othello's character in the end ironically reminds me of The Dark Knight movie. I believe the Joker said the following line, "You're a hero long enough to see yourself turn evil." That reminds me of Othello by the end of the story, because he was always looked at with such respect for being a high rank in the army, but he wasn't a hero anymore, he was a murderer. To me, Shakespeare way over did Othello's killing spree. The ending would have been much happier if Iago had come clean, but then again, I suppose this is why it's a tragedy! :)
ReplyDeleteTo me, the ending was far from expected. I had never thought the characters would go that far and end up killing themselves, and one another. The ending shows how manipulative Iago was and how he was able to get everyone to believe what he wanted them to believe. If it wasn't for Iago the ending would have been nothing like it turned out, Iago manipulated peoples trust in him, and used people to his advantage in getting what he wanted but it in the end backfired seeing as everyone died and the outcome he wanted failed and left him injured and his villain side revealed. I liked the ending because i felt it put a twist on what we as an audience predicted what would happen and completely changed it around into something more intriguing.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Ealbertell that the ending was quite surprising. I, as well, did not expect Roderigo to come back into the story. I also see why this is a tragedy as well as Ealbertell. The fact that everyone dies was obviously tragic. I felt almost everyone dying was a bit overwelming. I did not want Emilia to die. I really wanted Othello to hear what wrong he did. He did not seem to fully know the story. I also liked how Iago finally got caught which is one of the steps to making a classic tragedy. It fit the play, because Iago was caught and all of the steps were filled to a classic tragedy. I just wish some of the significant characters lived.
ReplyDeleteAlso as jinganamort mentioned, it is a lesson to be learned. To me, in a way that things will always come back around when you do something wrong; what goes around comes around.
I thought the ending was kind of surprising. I knew deaths were going to take place because of the way Iago set up the play. Although, I only thought Othello and Desdemona would die. I think the ending showed what can happen when rumors are spread and people believe everything they hear. Shakespeare wanted to show the extreme of what rumors can do through the end of the play. The reason for the many deaths at the end showed that the spread of rumors can also harm the people around you as well. The build up of Iago's plan throughout the story made the many deaths fit the ending.
ReplyDeleteI thought that the end of Othello was boring and not very surprising. The ending was not surprising because the reader expected bad things to happen to the characters surrounding Iago, but it could have been more exciting. In the play, I suspected that Iago’s plan was eventually going to fail, and as a result, people were going to die. Although the ending was fitting for the play, it did not follow Shakespeare’s usual formula, which made it less interesting for the reader. In most of Shakespeare’s plays, the formula there are deaths, the villain is caught, and the tragic hero dies. The play could have been more interesting if Iago revealed his evil plan, rather than the plan being discovered in the pocket of the deceased Roderigo. Another reason why the ending was boring was because everyone dies except for Cassio and Iago
ReplyDeleteI found the end to be quite surprising. Like RKolakowski, I also knew deaths were going to occur by the way Iago was manipulating certain individuals and telling them good advice even though the advice only helped him in the end. I feel like it was a fit ending. I feel like Shakespeare was trying to get a message across to all his readers. I feel the message was that if people set rumors and you don’t investigate to see if it is really true, those rumors can lead to horrific tragedies. Iago manipulating people throughout the story made people in the end turn on each other and lead to many deaths that shouldn’t of happened because of rumors that weren’t true.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I did not like the anding of Othello. The solution to the play's conflict, capturing Iago and Othello committing suicide after having killed Desdemona, seemed rushed and unrealistic. Although I do realize that Shakespeare was not approaching his writing from a realist's perspective, it seems as though he was writing a play suited to his own preference, where Iago has his revenge and everyone is left confused and disorganized, and then realized that he was writing for and audience (which may have been enfuriated if the villain won) and quickly created an absurd deus ex machina-esque mechanism for the solution (the note found in Rodrigo's pocket).
ReplyDeleteI thought the end of the play was good and it carried out Iago's plans.I think that the end was expected because the whole book was to get to this moment and it fit well at the end. It was also expected because everything leading up to this plan was successful up to this point so you can only assume there will be conflict at the end as Iago wanted. Overall I thought it was a good tragic ending because Iago really controlled the deaths so I though that was interesting.
ReplyDeleteI thought the ending to Othello was a little predictable besides a few events. In class we talked about the formula for a Shakespearean tragedy, and Othello follows it perfectly, though this isn't a bad thing it just makes the story predictable. The ending wasn't predictable in the sense of timing though, The ending snuck up on me while reading it. One moment Othello is being played by Iago then the next second Othello has killed his wife and himself. The characters who killed others was kind of know let it be from the cover of the book or just suspicion. the only death that really shocked me was Emilia's death. But, this over all was the best ending for the play to have.
ReplyDeleteIn class we talked about the formulas and one of the main one was death. therefore i thought it was a bit predictable. maybe the fact that EVERYONE dies was a little over to the ending. however i thought somewhat it fit in what the whole idea was in "othello." i cant imagine anything else being the ending for this. So overall i think that this was the best way to end the play. in conclusion i thought it fit well to the end of the play.
ReplyDeleteI thought the ending of the play was not very interesting. Before reading the play i knew it was a tragedy which meant that the majority of the characters will die. So when the ending happened and the characters began to die off I wasn't that surprised. The only death that caught me off guard was Emilia because unlike Desdemona and Othello she doesn't have anyone planning against her. It seemed that Iago killed her in the heat of the moment. Overall I thought the ending fit the story.
ReplyDeleteI thought the ending of the play was shocking. Yes everyone died, we all expected that, but what truly shocked me was how Shakespeare didn't follow his usual formula. At the end of all his plays he has the viilain, who has just been caught and his plan ruined, express some sort of sorrow. But not with Iago. With Iago, Shakespeare mixed it up. When asked by Othello why he has caused all the trouble for him and his loved ones, he answered by saying he will never speak another word of it again, expressing no sorrow whatsoever. Other than Shakespeare not following his usual formula, i thought the ending was very unique but fitting to the play as well.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the ending to the play was very typical of Shakespeare, going into reading this book, I knew that the ending was not going to be an every day fictional ending where the good prevails. No, I knew Shakespare would make some people die, some people fight, and there would be no, happily ever after. On the other hand, I do believe that the ending fit well with the story. The story foreshadowed to a very gloomy ending where many deaths would occur and that is exactly what happened. It ended off the play wonderfully. I think that Shakespeare was even getting at proving a point by doing this. He is showing how miscommunication can lead to horrific endings
ReplyDeleteI feel that the ending of the play, Othello was obvious because it was implied that is was going to happen. Most of Shakespeare's plays end up with deaths and i knew that he was going to kill Desdemona. But i also was shocked that he killed her at the same time because he did have a lot of emotion and feelings for her and i thought that his feelings would hold him back from killing Desdemona. I feel that Othello is severely jealous of Cassio because he "knows" that she cheated on him. Shakespeare ends most of his plays with a tragedy and it happend in this play also.
ReplyDeleteI think that the ending to Othello was fitting but according to his time.Shakespeare wrote his plays according to a formula that made sense to his time. Now this ending wouldn't seem fitting because it wasn't realistic with othello's change to Iagos plan working, but he wasn't writing in realism and he stretched his imagination on some of the things he did in othello. Everything in the play went with his formula except for the fact the villain, Iago, didn't apologize at the end which usually happens in his plays.
ReplyDeletethe ending of the play Othello was as confusing as it was intriquing. It give the veiwer/reader much to think about as they finish. Shakespeare didnt write liek other writers, he worked with the characters to make them one of a kind for a one of a kind story.
ReplyDeleteI felt that the ending to Othello was like a classic Shakespeare ending: everybody's dead. Though unlike most of his endings, the bad guy (Iago) dies. So in some ways it is a happy ending, and in others a sad ending. It's complex and makes you think about the story instead of just giving you a Halmark happy ending.
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