Yet, ’tis the plague of great ones;
Prerogatived are they less than the base;
‘Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.

– William Shakespeare

Othello, Act 3, Scene 3. Othello sees himself as the tragic hero. He is the great general who has to endure being cuckolded, which he compares in metaphor and simile to a "plague" and "death."