{"id":279,"date":"2024-12-12T18:18:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T18:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/?p=279"},"modified":"2024-12-12T18:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T18:18:30","slug":"module-13-discussion-13-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/2024\/12\/12\/module-13-discussion-13-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Module 13 Discussion 13.1"},"content":{"rendered":"One of the reasons tragic plays feel so tragic is because of the hopelessness in the final act. Even though the ending may seem like it was fated to occur, that doesn&#8217;t mean the reader has to feel good about it. Othello himself is considered a tragic hero archetype due to his own flaws bringing about his demise, but even though his story was always going to end in tragedy it doesn&#8217;t make it any less sad. Othello&#8217;s main flaw is his jealousy, and while this does bring him down in the end, Lago is the one who uses that jealousy for his own ends. What makes the story especially tragic is the fact that, if Lago had not been around and the people of Venice been more open, Othello could have had a successful career and marriage. While Othello&#8217;s actions did eventually become his undoing, it is still easy to see that he was a product of a society that would never truly care for him. ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons tragic plays feel so tragic is because of the hopelessness in the final act. Even though the ending may seem like it was fated to occur, that doesn&#8217;t mean the reader has to feel good about it. Othello himself is considered a tragic hero archetype due to his own flaws bringing&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/2024\/12\/12\/module-13-discussion-13-1\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":27243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng112fall24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}