著者

堀内 夕子 ホリウチ ヨウコ Yoko HORIUCHI

雑誌

大阪産業大学論集. 人文科学編

巻号頁・発行日

vol.113, pp.145-156, 2004-06-30

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Othello is a play in which the proud main character falls into a scheme and is deceived. Essentially Othello will not be shaken easily but he is confused by lago's evil plan. After struggling in confusion, he kills his wife. This work can be viewed as a battle between good and evil or God and the devil. There is a conflict between Desdemona who believes in God and follows the doctrine of agape love and lago who is like an incarnation of the devil. This work is a tragedy of a person who lives between two extremely different structures, agape love and reasoning (Umeda 1985). Desdemona lives for agape love, on the other hand lago lives for cruel rationalizing. Othello is the person who hangs between them and to cap it all his dear's death wakes his agape love again. In this paper, I would like to deliberate the relative image of two characters in Ohello and biblical quotation, focusing on devilish lago who, it is not too much to say, he is the leading character and Desdemona who lives life to the full for agape love.