OTHELLO : 人間性의 喪失 = OTHELLO : Loss of Human Value

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

For the close examination into Othello's tragic sense in general, not only the hero's characteristic way of thinking, his behavior, but also some important events (or some tragic accidents) were explained in this thesis to give an elucidative conclusion to Othello's tragical and literary values.
Iago's conspiracy was firstly mentioned in this thesis for the purpose of elucidating its function to the whole play. Iago, inspite of his highly developed mind, seemed to have been the very man only to create various significent crimes. His name has been thought to be a kind of Sh's symbol word for the evil itself. His evil device made a distinguishing feature; enjoying his own intrigue terribly planned only for the ruin of others. He deserved to be criticized as a "destructive plotter of revenge," even though he looked upon his own behavior as one for the righteous revenge. This is why he never thought of his own egoistic conspiracy as a crimminal sin. He took the best advantage of some innocent people only for bringing his intrigue to a great success.
Othello was a symbol hero for his innocent simplicity which was well above his personality and bravery. "He loved not wisely but too well, easily jealousy, but being wrought, perplexed in the extreme." His continuous pursuit of ideal love has been criticized as the very reason why his innocent simplicity was defeated by Iago's evil device. His defeat gave an important meaning to us readers in that his personal ill-luck implied the great loss of our own human nature. His love of an idealistic fantasy of a woman led him into a great conflict which can never be regarded as a philosophical one but as a mere suffering from his sexual envy. His conflict was not for the salvation of human value, but it made a good impression of depriving us of our human value, for his image of goodness was desperatedly teased by Iago's evil device, and for his bringing ruin upon himself implied the collapse of our own human value. This is the best tragic sense of the play, elucidated in this thesis.
Desdemona was another great failure in loving her husband Othello, because she herself had an important defect of lacking in worldly wisdom. Although she is the best symbol woman of beauty, purity and love in sh's tragedies, her passion for love is well above her wisdom. If she had loved Othello in the more practical way, and if Othello had examined better into her true love, their tragedy of ill-luck would not have made such a great sacrifice.
In conclusion, without Othello's egoistic prejudice and without Desdemona's lacking of worldly wisdom, they would not have been teased by Iago's conspiracy. Even if done so, they would not have meant the loss of our humanity. If they had had goodness and wisdom altogether, they would not have been called the most significent tragic victims.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 序 論
• Ⅱ. Iago의 犯罪的 陰謀
• Ⅲ. 人間性의 喪失
• (1) ideal love의 追求
• (2) mental conflict
• Ⅳ. 結 論
• 參考文獻
• Abstract