Post your main response and responses to two classmates’ posts, collectively amounting to 400 words minimum (at least 150 for your main post and at least 125 for each reply to classmates) due next week, Monday, 4/25 — Be sure that your main response answers the prompt thoroughly and that your responses to classmates directly address the ideas discussed in their posts in depth. Please, put as much effort into your replies to classmates as you do your response to the prompt. Your replies are what make this a discussion. Thank you.

Involving such elements of human nature as good and evil, love and hate, jealousy, and even racism, “Othello” is a difficult play to characterize thematically. What makes Othello a tragic hero, and how is he central in the play? Considering so much of the plot depends on Iago’s diabolical character, what does he contribute to the theme? How about jealousy? Just how prevalent among the characters and causes of tragedy in the play is it? While Othello has much to say about human nature, how much is still relevant to our modern lives? Explain your interpretation of the play.