Hecatommithi

There are no good aspects from Hecatommithi that are not already in the play, as Shakespeare clearly “ripped off” Hecatommithi. You can see by simply reading this story that there is no way Shakespeare did not read it and take some parts from it. Shakespeare has already taken all of the parts of the story, that would be great on stage, and put them on stage by plagiarizing. Shakespeare is clearly very good at knowing what parts to steal. The themes that are taken are as follows: lies are powerful also distrust can lead to downfall.  Lies are powerful is a phenomenal theme for Shakespeare to write a play on (and he did) because the truth of the statement is demonstrated by Iego continuously lying and driving wedges between people which causes them to distrust each other more but they trust Iego more due to his elaborate and well planned lies. They are shown to be powerful when people are convinced that the most logical thing to do is to kill, which is rarely the most logical thing to do. In conclusion, Shakespeare took the theme of lies as a powerful thing and wrote Othello. If you were looking for more things you could take and add to Shakespeare’s play as he has taken all the good parts from Hecatommithi.