itary leader for most of his life, trusting another military friend is uncommon, and therefore Othello has no reason not to believe or trust Iago. So it can be said that Othello has a number of tragic flaws, one being trustworthy. It is not to say that being trust worthy is a bad characteristic, but not to trust his own wife is considered a bad one. Othello did not confront Desdemona and allowed his temper to blind his judgment. We can see that he is being a chauvinist, and that makes the truth lie somewhere in between being a victim and getting what he deserved.Oedipus is definitely a tragic hero. In Aristotle’s theory he talks about the ways you become a tragic hero. The first thing that happened to Oedipus is the “the reversal of fortune leading up to a final recognition”. In the story this happens many times, when he is a baby he was sent to the mountain to be killed, which would be a misfortune. A shepherd comes up comes up to the mountain and saves him by bringing him back to Corinth. Oedipus kills his biological father. Later in life he solves the riddle of the sphinx and becomes the town hero. The next thing that happened would be when Oedipus finds out that he married his mother and killed his father which was what he was trying to stay away from his whole life. this also shows us that Oedipus is lying somewhere between being a victim and getting what he deserves. The characters of Oedipus and Othello are developed into round characters. Such characters are those that are well developed three dimensionally with multiple meaning to their characters. Oedipus is a character who’s fate cannot be avoided, and which every path he seems to take leads him to more trouble than what he had to delt with before. Even though his character is well-rounded, he is not trust worthy. It is very unlikely that Oedipus would marry a woman who looked as if she could be his mother without asking a few questions about her past...
