Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence by Muir Kenneth;

Author:Muir, Kenneth; [Muir, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 1972-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

But the strongest testimony to the Moor's virtues comes from his bitterest enemy. Although in talking to others Iago makes derogatory remarks about him, complaining of his bombast, his bragging, his lies and his lasciviousness, in soliloquy and even in dialogue he reveals that the Moor is a great and valiant soldier and that, although he hates him, he has a ‘constant, loving, noble nature’,

a free and open nature

That thinks men honest that but seem to be so.

It is surely difficult to argue that everyone in the play is mistaken about the Moor and that in defiance of their estimate of his character we must accept the diagnosis of two or three modern critics that he is a self-deceiving egotist, bombastic and naturally jealous. Even Iago knew better than that. He knew that Othello's fatal flaw was his credulity, which enabled him to be led by the nose. Like Chapman's hero,21

He would believe, since he would be believed:

Your noblest natures are most credulous.

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