William Shakespeare began writing tragedies because he believed the plots used by other English writers were lacking artistic purpose and form. He used the fall of a notable person as the main focus of his tragedies (Tragic Hero) developed through the characterization of his pivotal characters correlated with a common theme or a controlling idea. His play Othello, written in approximately 1604 displays this style with the theme of human nature, its being of both good …showed first 75 words of 1098 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1098 total…a tragedy that shows how ambivalence and manipulation are stronger in some cases than love and logic. Many good people died because of their ignorance to this fact. This theme is summed up in Othello's dying speech in which he declared himself as "one who lov'd not wisely but too well; of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, perplex'd in the extreme, of one whose hand, like the base indian, threw the pearl away."