Character of Othello

Vivid and suggestive descriptions of both Othello's race and sexual prowess are made throughout Act 1, Scene 1, before the audience even meets Othello. Iago and Roderigo make much of Othello's "thick lips" (1.i.66) and call his an "old black ram" (1.i.88), and "a Barbary horse" (1.i.111-112], who is "making the beast with two backs" (1.i.116-17) with Desdemona. This skillfully offensive language sets up a different expectation of Othello, who appears in Act 1, Scene 2. Instead of a barbaric Moor, the Othello who strides on the stage is a strong, powerful man, come to Venice as a soldier of fortune to help fight the war against the Turks.

Unlike other tragic heroes, he is not a prince like Hamlet or a king like Oedipus, or even a man of noble birth. In fact, nothing about him matches the first of the four qualifications required for a tragic hero, that of a "good and noble man."

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