After Romeo and Juliet, I have now just finished Othello from William Shakespeare. I must be getting used to the old language since I have been a lot faster to read it than Romeo and Juliet; I am getting used to refer constantly to the lexical at the end of the book as well so I'm not too lost when the text gets complicated.
Reading Othello has been much more interesting: the characters are more polished and their feelings are more detailed. I discovered the evil Iago (I am ashamed to admit that I only knew this name from the Walt Disney motion picture Aladdin... Better late than never I guess).
Obviously, everybody dies at the end of the book; Shakespeare likes to torture his characters... Well not everybody but the only guy who survives has lost a leg so... not too far from it :) Poor Desdemona though.
10 December 2013
Othello
After Romeo and Juliet, I have now just finished Othello from William Shakespeare. I must be getting used to the old language since I have been a lot faster to read it than Romeo and Juliet; I am getting used to refer constantly to the lexical at the end of the book as well so I'm not too lost when the text gets complicated.
Reading Othello has been much more interesting: the characters are more polished and their feelings are more detailed. I discovered the evil Iago (I am ashamed to admit that I only knew this name from the Walt Disney motion picture Aladdin... Better late than never I guess).
Obviously, everybody dies at the end of the book; Shakespeare likes to torture his characters... Well not everybody but the only guy who survives has lost a leg so... not too far from it :) Poor Desdemona though.
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