In your view, does Othello’s long speech in V, ii, 348–366, succeed in restoring his original dignity and nobility? Do you agree with Cassio (V, ii, 372) that Othello was “great of heart”?
What will be an ideal response?
- Obviously, in the light of what he has done, nothing can completely “succeed in restoring his original dignity and nobility,” but in this speech, Othello: 1) reminds us of his previous greatness (349); asks not for special pleading on his behalf, but to be judged fairly and completely (350–353); explains his fall (353–356); shows his recovered understanding—recovered tragically too late—of Desdemona’s worth (356–358); acknowledges his profound misery and remorse (358–361); and, in his reference to his encounter with the Turk in Aleppo (362–366), says, in effect, that Othello at his finest never hesitated to execute rough justice on a villain, and that, demonstrating his return to his old self, he has come upon another such villain and proceeds to do likewise to this one. Until Iago’s erosion of his finer self, Othello was indeed worthy of Cassio’s description.
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