Quote Response #9

Again while reading Othello, I found another interesting line. It's right after Othello stabs Iago. Othello:"I am not sorry neither. I'd have thee live; For in my sense, 'tis happiness to die" (5.2, 285-6). I think that it's odd and quite intriguing that Othello equates happiness with dying. Maybe it is because of all the terrible things that has happened to him? And that is probably the case, but it just seems so sad that he feels that there is no hope left for him. Could he not start fresh? Or would everything just follow him elsewhere? Throughout the course of the play I just want to tell Othello to not listen to the lies that Iago tells him. But this is why it's called a tragedy, there is nothing we can do and we just have to sit back and watch it all unfold.