Due to social preferment, it is impertinent for Othello to maintain reputation, as well as other characters. Hence, as posited by F.R Leavis, "Othello, in his magnanimous way, is egotistic. He is really beyond any question, the nobly massive man of action, the captain of men, he sees himself as being... It is, at the best, the impressive manifestation of a noble egotism". However, Leavis continues, "self-centredness does not mean self-knowledge.' This is notion is evident by Othello in "my parts, my title and my perfect soul/ shall manifest me rightly."
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