Explain How This Shared Theme Of "Uncertain Vision" Is Treated Somewhat Differently In Othello Than It Is In Oedipus The King
There are many tragic works by different kinds of authors who have employed the feature if the disparity between reality and appearance. One classic example of such works is Oedipus, which presents to authors an example of blindness. This is seen in his uncertain vision in different situations as well as his reluctance to put things together to make sense even when presented with enough evidence before him, that makes him be characterized as being blind, and this character resulted to a tragic end of the play.
Oedipus, which is a character that was famed for his ability to view situations clearly, finds out that he had not been seeing a massive situation that he was…show more content… The plot that is still fresh in most of the readers minds can be taken to imply that even though a person might struggle to have everything right, if fate has it will not come to pass, it will never happen. The only character that came out as being negative in the play is of the actual father of Oedipus who gave orders to have the boy murdered after which in a karmic twist ended up being killed by his son as it has been foretold. The rest of the characters in the play bare no personal blame for what took place.
Just as in the Oedipus the King, one of the main theme in ‘Othello’ happens to be the inability reliably differentiate between what appears to be what; however, the common theme between the two plays of ‘uncertain vision’ has been treated somehow different in Othello as compared to how it has been presented in Oedipus the King.
One of the major differences that is evidence of the theme in the two books is the reason for the ‘uncertain visions’ as well as the tragedy that resulted from each other is totally different in the
