Othello
Ratings245
Average rating3.8
Is it weird that I found myself squealing over Shakespeare?? Honestly, this play is sassy and I love it. It is so much drama and honestly I was on the edge of my seat like hmm.. really???? What!!! I had to read this for college and whilst I struggled with the language sometimes, No Fear Shakespeare was a lifesaver and helped translate for me. The thing I enjoyed most about this was the comparison my friends and I could make between Othello and the lives of people we knew including ourselves. It is crazy to think that it is still relevant x amount of years later. Good on you Shakespeare!
Desdemona: unlucky
Again, can't give much of a review because I'm blazing through these books for class lol. That and I think the level of analysis for a class and the mode of reading is different from what I'd think and feel if it was not assigned work. Still, I thought this was really good, with masterful, stunning lines from Shakespeare as usual. Iago was fantastic. What stood out and made Othello a play that shot to the top of my favorites list(for Shakespeare, anyway) is the intimacy in the relationships between characters. It's realistic, yet unreal. Many other plays seem to have unnecessary parts or sprawl all over the place, but Othello is probably the smallest-scale Shakespeare I've read yet.
I'm not a huge fan of Shakespeare's plays. That being said this one was not my favorite thing ever but it was better than the other Shakespearean plays I had to read. This one is the first I read in its entirety without even glancing at spark-notes.
Summary: Othello has just married Desdemona, and Iago, who hates Othello and knows that Desdemona’s father will not be happy about his daughter’s marriage to a Black man, decides to tell Desdemona’s father what has happened. Soon after he does, however, Othello, a skilled soldier, is called upon to protect Venice. Iago follows Othello and continues to antagonize him, but to do so in such a way that Othello does not realize that it is Iago who is the cause of all the trouble that he is experiencing.
This tragedy is both frustrating and heartbreaking, and it features one of Shakespeare’s most dislikeable villains.
My favourite Shakespeare :)) All of their names have a special place in my heart <33
Honestly? I loved this.
Never would have expected that, but it's the truth! I was so happy to be able to comprehend this that I finally got to enjoy Shakespeare's writing. It made sense to me and I loved how elegant the language was. Not only that, but it was an awfully entertaining story even if it was a tad predictable. I'm excited to see what comes next in this class!