Othello, by William Shakespeare, and Oedipus King, by Sophocles, are both plays written over two thousand years apart that hold a few differences, and a great deal of similarities. First, the structure of the plot holds true to the form of a tragedy. A tragedy is generally defined as "A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as ... his mother as his wife and his children as his brothers and sisters. The corruption that Oedipus is blind to is the fact that he caused all of this horror himself, and that he has brought his downf...

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