tragedy

• Bloom - The two honeymooners never do have time to make love, and that Othello’s murder of Desdemona in Act 5 enacts a symbolic, tragically ironic “consummation.”
• Bloom - When Iago says “I am your own forever” it “seals Othello’s fate
• Donkor - “Othello’s conflicted conscience and Desdemona’s fight to convince her beloved of her fidelity are microcosms for the play’s international conflict”