So you may be wondering why my blog is titled this...well there isn't one specific reason why. First, I think it's a great quote from the movie Forrest Gump. Also, I like the message it teaches. Life is unexpected, and no one knows what lies before them. We have to take the chance and go see for ourselves if we ever want to accomplish something. This is also a lot like reading. We start out reading a book not knowing where it will take us. The ending is unknown until we reach it; sometimes it ends good and sometimes it ends bad. However, we will never know how it turns out in the end if we do not keep going.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

The End...?

As the play nears an end, there is one thing we know for sure - it will not end well. This play is a tragedy which automatically tells us it will not have a happy ending. I suspect it will most likely involve the deaths of many of the characters. I do not know for sure, but I would guess that Desdemona will end up dead in the end. She even mentions this possibility to Emilia, "All's one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds! If I do die before thee, prithee shroud me in one of those same sheets" (IV.iii.22-23). I also think Cassio will die because Iago has made him so deeply involved in his evil plan. Since it is a tragedy, I think it is possible that Othello might also die. Whether he is killed by someone or he takes his own life after discovering the truth about Desdemona's innocence, I think he will probably die in the end. There may be others and some of these characters may survive, but there is only one way to know for sure...finish Act V.
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