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“Speak of me as I am: nothing extenuate,” explore the nature of ‘Othello’ as a tragedy.
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"Speak of me as I am: nothing extenuate," explore the nature of 'Othello' as a tragedy. "Speak of me as I am: nothing extenuate," Othello's final soliloquy seals Shakespeare's famous tragedy of Othello. The nature of this Tragedy, however, is somewhat ambiguous. These final lines from Othello justifies the mass audience to believe that the tragedy of 'Othello' is one of mere deception, predominantly convinced of Iago's opportunistic, foul and manipulative nature juxtaposed with the nobility and honour possessed by Othello. On the other hand it can be seen that the faults within Othello lead to the acceptance of lies, which aids Iago in the eventual downfall of Othello. This underlying theme present, challenges Othello as a tragedy based on deception but also self-deception. With this in mind Othello's final soliloquy explains only one aspect of the tragedy, not the full extent. A tragedy has many definitions; the oxford dictionary...
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