Othello a play from Shakespeare

Like Hamlet, and other plays, Othello is yet another example of William Shakespeare’s wit and odd, sometimes dark sense of humor. Those who are deceitful, greedy, and basically bad seeds, get their just rewards in the end. This alone is simply a, good prevails, typical storyline seen throughout history, usually trying to teach the audience a moral lesson. However, Shakespeare is anything but typical, yes the evil-doers get it in the end, but (and that’s a big but), so do many innocent bystanders. Good story tellers will have their audience rooting for the bad guy to fail miserably, get caught, etc. Shakespeare achieved that in Othello; however, he also made us feel a bit morbid for trying to hold back a chuckle at the ridiculousness of all the bloodshed in this story. This is the part of the play where Shakespeare apparently threw moral lessons out of the window and went for attention grabbing, unforgetableness. Also, and by no means an easy feat, he managed to make getting stabbed in the back, both figuratively and literally, lighthearted. We can somewhat figure out the likely outcomes as players start conniving and scheming. However, by the end of the story as the chips start to fall, the storyline unravels like a soap opera intervention. He was truly ahead of his time.