Like almost all of Shakespeare's tragedies, there is a huge body count at the end of Othello. Cassio is wounded in the leg and Roderigo is killed by Iago in the darkness. In the final scene, Othello suffocates and kills Desdemona while Iago kills Emilia for speaking against him. Othello then kills himself. Iago is taken away to be tortured but is not killed. (Putnam) In Fielding's Tom Thumb, Thumb is eaten by a cow and dies, but his ghost appears. Grizzle decides to kill Thumb's ghost, while Huncamunca then proceeds to avenge Tom Thumb by killing Grizzle. In the end everyone kills themselves, even the king who dies. In Shakespeare's time these were real tragedies, where everyone died. He was funny in his day and every play he wrote ended memorably. Henry Fielding created his own opinion of Shakespeare's tragedies and wrote his most famous one ridiculing it