Greenhorn brings up a side point about the overuse of the word “tragedy” in that article, and it’s something that annoys me all the time. In a tragedy, a noble person is destroyed by a single fault, classically hubris but not always. So, Othello is a tragic figure because he’s a great man but has one vice, jealousy, which Iago stokes to destroy him.

This woman was not at all noble. She was a wicked person, doing something wicked, who was killed as a result of her wickedness and stupidity. As Greenhorn puts it, “ this is sad only in a Christian sense, in the sense that a fallen soul has met its end. But there is nothing sad in an evil woman bent on doing evil and being struck down while doing an evil thing.”