Quite a Shakespearean Finish

Othello, the Moor of Venice, written by none other than William Shakespeare, ends in tragedy.  Only two guilty lives were lost at the end of the play.  The accomplice of Iago, Rodrigo, was killed by Iago in order to avoid payment.  This action characterized Iago has a truly heartless fiend.  Iago was also eventually killed, although not before many innocent deaths and excruciating torture.  Othello delivers a long speech, saying "... beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog and smote him, thus," (Sheakspeare, 1460).  After he concludes, he proceeds to stab himself out of guilt for the murder of the innocent Desdemona.  As the story concludes, Cassio appears to be the only character that will make it out alive.  Cassio represented the middle ground, as he was not the most noble or most wicked of characters.  Shakespeare could be insinuating the neither extreme is the one that succeeds.  Rather, the winners are those who come from the middle.