Genre

• Genre: Love and Tragedy

  The love story and the dramatic tragedy come together to make the overall narrative about a love story that goes terribly wrong because of outside influences.
• Love and tragedy

  • As we know from above, the play may simultaneously be described as:
  • A Love Story.
  • A Dramatic Tragedy.
  • These two elements come together to make the overall narrative about a love story that goes terribly wrong because of outside influences.
• Love story

  • Amongst the love story aspects are moments of:
  • Romantic and passionate love between Othello and Desdemona.
  • Restrictions put on love by society and the resistance to such restrictions.
  • Platonic love.
  • Love being defeated by suspicion and jealousy.
  • Lessons in how not to conduct love for the New World.
• Tragedy

  • Amongst the dramatic tragedy are moments of:
  • Insight after is too late to alter things.
  • The claustrophobic nature of the tragedy.
  • The quest for revenge.
  • The domestic nature of the actual tragedy.
  • The way a single tragedy causes a domino effect elsewhere.