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I thought that the end of the play was predictable, but that is only because we all knew that Shakespears tragic endings usually end in a lot of deaths. There were a few parts of the plays ending that I found uneccessary. For example, Desdemona coming back alive. Even now, movies have people that aren't quite dead say something else. It just isn't really needed. Another scene that I thought didn't have to happen was when Roderigo and Cassio were fighting. I'm not sure if I just didn't understang that part of the play, or if it really wasn't that important. When Iago stabbed Roderigo, I was a little dissapointed that he died. There were enough deaths with Desdemona, Othello and Emilia, there was no point in Roderigo dieing too. The reason why Iago killed him was because he knew too much, when, in the end, everyone found out everything.
There were good parts of the ending of the play though. Even though Emilia didn't have to die, I thought it showed Iago's true side well. The ending in general was good, I just think somethings weren't neccessary.
The ending of the play was depressing, but very good. It's sad and predictable that a lot of people die at the end. Although, that ending fits the play and makes the plot flow evenly. I like how Emilia rats out Iago to everyone; it's to bad that he killed her too. I find it very depressing that a beautiful love was destroyed by a lie and jealousy. Othello and Desdemona could have had a wonderful life together, but Iago ruined because he didn't get a job! Although, the fight between Cassio and Roderigo was amusing, and I didn't see it coming. I did see that Iago was going to kill Roderigo, which he did. The ending to the classic play of Othello was very good, but very tragic indeed.
After reading the end of Othello, I had mixed thoughts. I have read other tradgetys that Shakespeare has written and they all have at least two things in common. The main character(tragic hero) dies, and many other people die. This aspect of the end was predictable. There were things that were not predictable, though. An example is that the tragic hero, Othello, dies by his own hand. I also liked how Shakespeare had the villian get a great deal of people killed without actually having to kill them himself. Iago manipulated people into doing the dirty work for him. I think this is an excellent example of Shakespeare's literary genious.
As i was reading othello, I thought about the ending and what might happen. I knew it was a tragedy so i suspected it would involve death. At some points it was very predictable and others were not. When I found that Othello killed Desdemona, I expected it coming and could tell just by the cover. The cover also shows readers that othello's character changes drastically in the play. I also expected Roderigo to die because he is not very smart and i expected him to not defend himself in a death situation. One of the parts I found unpredictable was when Iago went to jail. I didn't know what would happen to him in the end when reading. Overall, the ending was good and fit for the play. Being a tragedy, having a lot of deaths and dramatic scenes made it fall into place and work well.
The end of Shakespeare's play, "Othello" followed the formula for the ending of a play: The Hero must die, the villain's plans must be revealed, and the villain needs to be caught and sorry for what he did. Shakespeare's play did all of this. However, the wonderful thing about shakspeare is that he can follow a formula but put a twist on it. Was Iago really sorry at the end? His last line implied that he wasn't sorry and he didn't havea any motivation for what he did. So the ending of this play was predictable, but most writers wouldn't be able to be creative while following a formula like Shakespeare.
The end of Shakespeare's play was very predictable to me. I knew many people were going to die because in the last Shakespeare play I read at least two of the characters died. I think the ending for the play was good because it gave the reader a message: you cannot trust everyone. I also think the ending was good because Cassio stayed alive and Iago is going to be put in jail. All in all, the ending was descent but very predictable. The ending scene closed the play nicely and left the reader with no further questions.
I thought that the end of the play was ok. I didn't really like it because of how all the people died, but the play was good otherwise. The ending was predictable though, especially when we went over what happens in Chakespeares plays. I wish that the play ended a different way, where Desdemona and Othello arent killed.
The end of the play was a bit predictable, but some parts weren't expected. If you have read any of Shakespeare's other plays or already know his formula, you would have found this ending extremely predictable. In the formula, there needs to be: deaths, the villain's plan needs to be fully revealed (if there were plans), the villain needs to be caught (sometimes sorry), and the tragic hero must die.
At the end, there are four people that you know died. Othello dies by killing himself, which is predictable, especially if you have read Romeo and Juliet, or if you know the formula. Desdemona gets killed by Othello, which is pretty unexpected, because he might have been jealous, but his mind wouldn't be corrupted that easily by Iago. Also, Desdemona pretty much obeys Othello, when he says stop moving, and she doesn't even attempt to fight him. And Desdemona dies and comes back to life. That's just impossible (even if she has "breath" still in her). Roderigo dies kind of oddly. He gets stabbed to death by Iago. I would have expected Iago to finish Cassio off, not Roderigo. However, it was smart for him, because Roderigo would have told everyone about Iago's plan. Emilia dies, too, by Iago. This murder was the dumbest. Yes, Emilia figured out Iago's plan and told everyone. So, what was the point of her dying? There was no point in her dying, it was just adding to the "deaths" part of the formula. There is another person who dies, however. It is really random and unnecessary for the play. But it was Brabantio who died. He died by grieving (I believe), but it was just information that was not needed.
So, the ending was predictable, but it was pretty dumb. Othello would not have killed Desdemona, because no one can be corrupted so easily into thinking that way. Emilia's death was just random. Desdemona's death was pretty dumb, because she was too obedient when it happened. Roderigo's death was the only one that made partial sense, because he would have revealed Iago's plan. Too bad Roderigo didn't need to be alive, to ruin his plan, since he had Iago's plans written down and in his pocket.
So, the ending fit the play, but I think it was idiotic. It fit because of the events that had happened before it.
I though that the ending of the play was predictable considering it was a tradgedy. I knew that Othello and desdemona was going to die (and not just by the cover). Though however I did not think that Othello was going to kill himself and I did not believe that Iago would get captured and put in jail, though it is typical of a tradgety. Finally I did not think that Cassio would survive against Roderigo. I thought that Roderigo and Cassion would both die and Iago would run away with Emilia. I though that killing Emilia kind of down sized the play cause he did it for no apparent reason. Besides that the ending of the play did not bother me.
I found the end of the play as a horrible ending for all the main characters. It was also predictable because Shakespeare usually ends his play with a tradegy that causes either the hero or villain to die in the end from conflict, while many of the other characters fall into the conflict and also become murdered from the conflict against the both sides. In the story, Othello, the ending was not a fit ending to the story because in the end Othello murders himself, after murdering Desdemona. Roderigo, who fell into the conflict, was ironically killed by the villain, Iago, and Iago becomes a prisoner for his actions that caused suffering to several of the characters. In the end each character becomes affected negatively after Iago deceitfully uses the advantage of the trust and belief exhibited from Othello and the other characters to dishonestly tell Othello about Desdemona’s close affair with Cassio. In his hope to put Cassio in trouble, probably from not being promoted to second-in –command for Othello, Iago had tried to create a conflict through his advice to Othello, causing incidents to deceit Othello into believing Desdemona was false. After Othello murdered Desdemona he had then realized that Iago had treacherously deceived him and was the person to blame. The play was not a fitting ending because the main character, Othello, killed himself for the death of Desdemona. The whole conflict was created because of Iago’s cunning plan and could have been easily avoided at the end if Othello had questioned Cassio, Iago, and Desdemona altogether in order to prove if Iago’s false opinion was actually correct. The play would have been a fit ending if Othello in the end actually figured out Iago’s treachery and his dishonesty and organized and informed other characters (Gratiano and Lodvocio) to arrest Iago after the set up of Iago was uncovered. The play’s ending was not fit because in actuality Othello would not just assume that Desdemona is false and should be punished, he should investigate other people’s opinion before murdering his wife. One reason Shakespeare had written this play was to show that trust and belief are good traits, but only to a certain extent. The play’s ending is not fit because the characters should not fall in the grip of death so suddenly over a purpose mistake. They should be clever enough to figure out the incident.
I feel that for the time that this play was written that the ending suited it very well, but in the time that we live today i feel that the end of the play was almost to fake in the sense that im sure that it would never happen. I find this becasue the modern audience tends to like more realistic books/plays/ stories/ ext. At the time that this was written i think that the end of the play was exactly what the people wanted and enjoyed. I feel that shakespeare was a very smart man and we wouldnt have wrote something that doesnt appeal to the people at the time, i think that it is safe to say that at that time they liked it, but it doesnt seem to please the modern audience. Not only do i feel that the play was to fake but it was also very pridictable, i feel that someone could guess the ending of the play just reading the first couple pages if they knew the rules for the dramatic irony type books tjhat shakespeare wrote. Over all i did not like the ending let alone the whole entire book, according to many it was a great book but to me it was an epic fail.
I thought the end of this play was sort of predictable, only because it fit the guidelines for a tragic play. For example, the tragic hero dies but the villian does not. However, I also thought that this ending was well suited for the play. Although the ending was depressing, the play was tragic, and therefore a sad ending was expected. This made it go along well with the rest of the play, because it would have seemed strange if the ending was not sad. I thought the play could have ended a bit more creatively, though. Although I liked that it followed the accurate formula for a tragedy, I thought that it was a little too predictable and not surprising at all.
The play ended the way it was supposed to. There were many deaths-- including that of the tragic hero (Othello), Iago's plan was revealed, and he was caught. Some aspects of it weren't believable, for example some of the characters "came back to life", meaning they had lines after they were supposedly dead. This isn't too surprising, however, because in Shakespeare's time this is what people believed happened at the time of death; that there was enough breath left after your brain and heart stop working to mutter some last words. Some things I liked about the ending were how Emilia spoke out against Iago's will, revealing his plan to Othello who would not have found out the truth otherwise, and also I found some of the characters' last words interesting, especially Othello and Iago's. Othello's lines made it seem like he didn't think what he had done was that bad, and he was almost trying to justify himself. Iago's were even more interesting. Othello had demanded why Iago did this to him, and Iago simply stated "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know." Meaning he would never speak of his motive, leaving the reader hanging. All in all, it was a good ending, and fitted the formula.
I found the ending of the play sad and depressing. Manly every main character was effected by Iago. The people either ended up died, or emotionaly scarred for life. But when you think about it, its pretty predictable coming from Shakespear.I also found it every interesting that Iago the bad guy never ended up died?! That was a bit of a twist and also how his wife put everything together at the end. Over all I think it was a thrilling ending.
I do not think that the end of the play was really the best part. I don’t know what the best part was specifically, but the ending was much more predictable than any events leading up to it. The use of dramatic irony in the other parts, I – IV, keep the audience interested in what will happen, but by the end I though that Desdemona’s death was inevitable and that Iago’s plans were overall revealed by then anyway. One curveball thrown at the reader, though, was how Emilia is the one who finally realizes the dastardly plot aside from the reader. In the end, we don’t see a lot of aftermath to the story. I think any story, or movie, is better with a sort of epilogue. Maybe if Shakespeare had not revealed Iago’s trick until after the very end, a bit after Iago had been taken to prison, and used the surviving characters to figure it out for themselves. That would still have stuck to the ‘tragedy formula’ of the day, and I prefer an ending like that.
I was also saddened that the clown did not return. He was my favorite character.
The ending for the play "Othello," was a good ending although you could see what Othello did to Desdemona coming. You could see how Othello had become a jealous man, and how he could no longer accept the fact that Desdemona was with Casion. Alough I did not expect Emilia to get killed by Iago. The ending of the play I thought was fit to the play because of all the problems that arouse. Nobody could take what was going on, and somehow they had to resolve the problem themselves. For the time of the play the ending fit it very well because back then if you had a problem everybody around new about your problem. Back during the time that shakespear wrote this play if you decided to get a divorce from your spouse everybody in town new about it, and you would not have as much self respect for yourself because it had become a public issue instead of being private. Now in the 21st century if you are having a problem in your marriage, you could get a divorce and never have to deal with that person agian. Also one of the spouses might end up moving away so you won't run into that person maybe ever again.
I found the end of the play to be very Predictable and very uneventful. I was alittle disapointed that we all knew that desdamonas death was going to happen instead of making it a little less unpredictable. And the fact that Othello killed himself what obviously goingt to happen i just felt it was like every other romance story i have read. I feel like they never change. I wish Shakespeare put a twist on the ending instead of making it so predictable.
I actually really enjoyed the end of the Othello play. It seemed to be a very fit ending for one of Shakesperes tragedies. Although, there were some things that could have been left out or need some explaining for why they would be included. For example, one line proceeds that Desdemona's father died back in Venice. There was no reasoning for that, Other than maybe the feeling of a tragedy and the more people dying then the more you get a feel for it. All in all, the play ended the way it was supposed to
I found that we knew what was going to happen at the end of the play. But there was a curveball because I personally was not ecpecting a major chunk of the main cast to die. Some of those people included Othello, Desdemona, Emilia, and Roderigo. Most people know that in plays written by Shakespeare that have a tragic ending there were going to be people thatv die. That is what i was expecting. I thought that it was a fit ending because it goes with the formula of writing tragedies and it is somewhat unexpected.
the end of othello was something that i was expecting all along but a little to dramatic becuase they all died at the same time in the same room, i expected people to die as the story went along,the ending of othello was extremelly dramatic, and the way they said there last line before they died made it even worse. like in all movies the seen before a character dies is breath taking, tradegy, but in the end of otheello it had a whole new twist of lots of people fieing ata vvery short period of time with no warning
Ah, and so begins my quest to finish all of the blogs I have missed. Enjoy...Well, they dont call it a trajedy for nothing. I think this ending was just the thing this play needed. Shakespear somehow managed to make it a little bit funny even with all of the deaths. For example when Desdemona was asking for just a little bit more time before Othello killed her. I feel it added a bit of comedic relief to such a trajic senario. Lastly, I feel that everyone needed to die. Had they not it wouldnt have been that great of a story. There are too many "happily ever afters"out there. People need a twist in the plot every now and then. Also iit was sweet how othello killed him self over Desdemonas death. It shows his undying love for her.
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