Othello: Tragedy

Shakespeare's Othello shares many characteristics with the other tragedies of his that I have read. Like Caesar, the tragic hero in Othello, whom also happens to be the namesake of the play also alike Caesar, dies because of a tragic flaw.  Othello's flaw happened to be his extreme love for Desdemona and his belief in a villain. Like another one of Shakespeare's tragedies, Romeo and Juliet, the couple in love are almost doomed from the start.  In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet's families are enemies.  This is not the situation in Othello, but Othello and Desdemona did get married despite her father's wishes, and Othello made many other enemies through his marriage as well, as many men desired Desdemona. Also, in both tragedies the male member of the tragic relationship kills himself as a result of the death of his partner.  Romeo kills himself under the impression that Juliet had already done so, and Othello kills himself after killing Desdemona in his rage, "Of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe. Of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Set you down this,And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcisèd dog, And smote him, thus. Stabs himself." (V.ii.364-372).