I know... this is my 2nd post...

Though I have already posted on Othello, I wanted to make another one about the ending. Though Shakespeare is known for writing tragedies, I think he killed the whole story with the ending. I don't think it was believable that everyone would die as they did, and I think that there should have been more reason for some of the deaths, like Roderigo and Emilia. Othello's death was to be expected, and the rest of the play kind of foreshadowed that event. He started out relatively normal, and then went into a downward spiral of insanity, which eventually led to his demise. Desdemona's death was also predictable, but not really very realistic. I don't understand how she had been smothered for a long period of time, and then is able to say one last word, then dies. If your passage of air is reopened, you wouldn't suffocate, so that really didn't make sense to me. Overall, I think that Shakespeare could have done a better job with this, because it seems as if he was rushing the conclusion and didn't spend the necessary time on it.