Considered as the most powerful and moving of shakespeare's great tragedies. Othello traces the fall of a proud, dignified, but irresolute and vindictive person Othello, who is a mere victim of lago. The plot is simple - love turning sour by unfounded jealousy. lago convinces othello of the infidelity of his young and beautiful wife, desdimona. The enraged othello kills her, only to find lateā¦