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The book “Othello” and movie “Othello” are both surrounded with race and jealousy. Othello is the only black guy in this play. Because of his capability make him more stronger in the play. All the people around Othello are white, and you can clearly notice that in the movie. Desdemona is also a important role in this play. She is white, which makes she and Othello not that great to be together. That’s why even though Othello knows she loves him, he still can’t believe what she says. Finally he kills Desdemona. Othello has no self-confidence, because he was different than other. That’s why after Iago tells him that Desdemona is cheating on him, he easily believes. Iago hate Othello and envies him. Because of the power Othello has, makes him feel his position is really low. The jealousy urges him to make a plan to revenge Othello, so he asks help from Cassio. Cassio is a character who is also jealous Othello, because he loves Desdemona too. He is the white guy, so thinks he is more suited to be with Desdemona.Jealous is a big factor in this play, also it’s how this play starts and end.
Othello’s jealousy is comes from Iago’s words, because Iago says Desdemona cheat on him.This makes Othello feel mad and embarrassed. I think the part that Othello killed Desdemona on the bed is the most important part of this play. In the book, all the words Desdemona says in this scene is sad, and hopeless. Othello is totally despair ｗith Desdemona, he does’t understand why the woman he most love would cheat on him. In this white socity, the only person who Othello can trust is cheated on him, who can he believe? Before Desdemona dead, she asked Othello to comes to the bed. She though Othello loved her, he will trust her...
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...n this moive, he always used contempt eyes to see Odin, he don’t liked him. The half of the reason Micheal hate Odin was because he got Desi, and other half was because he is black.
The Shakespeare wanted to reinforce Othello’s characteristic a“ The green-eyed monster＂，so he wrote this character as a black. It makes this play more tendency to racism，it made jealousy more prominent. Because Othello is black, it made Desdemona’s cheat is for some reasons. It made them don’t looks well being together. In this play, Othello is the most powerful role in the play. And he was the only black man in this paly, it made this play more like a satire. Every event happen in the play was all causes by jealousy. Because of jealousy, all the main character getting into troubles. The jealousy is a evil who started of this play ,and jealousy also caused a sad ending of this play.
The tone of the story is tragic and serious. Meanwhile, there isn't any point of view because this is a play and a play doesn't normally have a narrator. Shakespeare lets the reader make up his/her own imagination with the characters' words and behavior. Since Othello is the protagonist, he is explained in more detail. Although Othello is a brave warrior, he is a jealous person; his jealousy also prevails over his good sense. The whole play depicts the fact that jealousy causes corruption. There are many conflicts found in Othello, and person vs. person is one of them. An example is when Iago seeks revenge against Othello and Cassio because of his anger and jealousy. Person vs. society appears when Desdemona's father Brabantio, disapproves her marriage to Othello because he is several years older than Desdemona, from a different class, and a different race. An internal conflict of person vs. himself is found when Othello is in a dilemma about whether or not should he believe that Desdemona is being unfaithful to him. Othello loves and trusts Desdemona until his jealousy is aroused by the cruel manipulations of Iago. Iago's intention was to persuade Othello to believe that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio. As Iago succeeds in convincing Othello that Desdemona is guilty of adultery, it leads to the climax of the play. And so Othello must face emotions he can't deal with. His jealousy drives him insane, and his judgment is replaced with anger and hate. At this time, the reader notices that the death of Desdemona is inevitable. Othello smothers her, and he eventually kills himself when he knows that Iago falsely accused Desdemona. This also represents the tragedy of the play.
... One day he meets a girl, who happens to be his friend’s daughter, and falls in love. She falls in love with his stories and he falls in love with her passion. One troublemaker tries to cause problems by accusing Othello of stealing his friend’s daughter using drugs and witchcraft. All this happens after Othello and Desdemona gets married. Othello is put in the position of defending his honor, and Brabanzio in the position of defending his daughter’s honor. Iago is the villain who started the nasty rumor. Brabanzio is also a man who does not believe in mixed marriages and Othello was a black man. This is a story that does not end very well. Shakespeare tackles the issues of race, lies, friendship and jealousy.
The director uses specific language and tone to stress the issue of race in Othello. The controversy of racial relationships is expressed through Brabantio's negative attitudes and words. He refers Othello to a 'foul thief, implying that his daughter could never love a man of a different colour, and that therefore Othello has stolen her from him. Brabantio compares Othello to someone that no one would want and he is disgusted that Desdemona would "run from her guardage to the sooty bosom". Thus implying that Othello is dirty and undesirable. The choice of language from the director highlights the other characters pessimistic and disrespectful attitudes towards Othello due to his skin colour.
Othello: The Moor of Venice is probably Shakespeare's most controversial play. Throughout this work, there is a clear theme of racism, a racism that has become commonplace in Venetian society which rejects the marriage of Othello and Desdemona as anathema. The text expresses racism throughout the play within the language transaction of the dialogue to question the societal ethos established by Othello, thereby making him nothing less than a cultural "other." Furthermore, the character of Desdemona is displayed as mad, or out of her wits, for marrying such an "other," and the audience sees her slip from an angelic state of purity to that of a tainted character. Also, the menacing Iago, a mastermind of deviant rhetoric, is able to play Othello and Desdemona against one another until their marriage fails, while at the same time destroying his adversary and friend, Cassio. Thus Iago has a specific agenda, not only to get back at Othello for choosing Cassio instead of him, but also to make Cassio the victim of his plan to destroy the forbidden marriage referred to by Brabantio as a "treason of the blood" (1.2.166-167). Essentially, Iago is a representative of the white race, a pre-Nazi figure who tries to inform the public of the impurity of Othello and Desdemona's marriage. He demonstrates how this miscegenation is threatening to the existing social order. Thus, through analysis of racism, the play represents the hatred possessed by mankind -- a hate so strong that society sees the mixing with an "other" to be a curse to humanity and a terrible threat to Aryan culture.
1.) In the play “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice” written by Williams Shakespeare, he reveals the main themes in Othello’s final speech. The two main themes Othello illustrates in his final speech are reputation and jealousy. In Othello’s speech he says, “When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am.” (Shakespeare 355), showing the importance of his reputation. He is unable to cope with criticism due to his low-self-esteem and therefore, cares what other individuals have to say about him. Othello’s dark skin is the reason why he does not have high-self-esteem and becomes jealous when Iago tells him about his wife having an affair with Cassio. Othello loves Desdemona but he feels that he is not good enough for her
In the tragedy Othello, Shakespeare creates a mood that challenges the way a person sees his or her self and the world. Subjects like racism, sexism, love, hate, jealously, pride, and trickery are thoroughly developed in the play of Othello to enable the audience to view the characters and also themselves. The Shakespearean tragedy of Othello was written in a time of great racial tensions in England. According to Eldred Jones, in 1600 just three years before Othello was written, Queen Elizabeth proclaimed an Edict for the Transportation of all "negars and blackmoores" out of the country ("Othello- An Interpretation" Critical Essays 39). It is in this atmosphere that Shakespeare began the masterpiece of Othello, a drama about a noble black Arab general, Othello, who falls in love with and marries, Desdemona, a young white daughter of a senator. From the above knowledge one may conclude that Shakespeare wrote Othello to express that all people, of all ethnicity, are basically the same in human nature. Shakespeare borrowed the idea of Othello from an Italian love story by Giraldi Cinthio. However, Shakespeare focuses more on the differences in color and age between Othello and Desdemona than Cinthio. Shakespeare does this to escalate Othello’s isolation from the rest of Venetian society and to display Othello’s vulnerability due to his color. In the tragedy not only is Othello susceptible to weaknesses but so is every major character . The tragedy reminds humans that even one’s good nature can be taken advantage of for the worse. The drama Othello expresses, through relationships and emotional attitudes, a theme that all humans are vulnerable to destruction even if they are in positions of power and glory.
The tragedy of Othello, written by William Shakespeare, presents the main character Othello, as a respectable, honorable, and dignified man, but because of his insecurities and good nature, he is easily taken advantage of and manipulated by his peers and alleged friends. The dynamic of Othello’s character significantly changes throughout the play. The contrast is most pronounced from the beginning of the play to its conclusion, switching from being calm and peaceful to acts of uncontrolled venomous rage. Othello’s motivation in the play appears to be his love and concern for his wife Desdemona, which ironically, ends up being his downfall in the end.
The role of jealousy, love and betrayal play a major role in The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice. The entire play is based on the human interactions of the characters as related to Othello and Desdemona. The characters’ personalities, their social status, and their relationships to each other control the story line and their fate in the play. Othello is portrayed early in the play as an outsider with animalistic characteristics by Iago and Roderigo because of jealousy. “Your heart is burst; and have lost half of your soul/Even now, now, very now, an old black ram/Is tupping your white ewe”.(531) Desdemona’s father, Brabantio, accuses Othello of using witch craft on his daughter. “If she in chains of magic were not bound/ Whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy/ So opposite to marriage that she shunned…” (535) This point is important because Othello must defend himself not only to Desdemona’s father, Brabantio, but to the entire Venetian Senate. “And till she come, as truly as to heaven,/ I do confess the vices of my blood./ So justly to your grave ears I’ll present/ How I did thrive in this fair lady’s love, / And she in mine.” (539) Othello proves himself to be an intellectual hero early in the play. He has worked hard to gain respectability and power, but because he has a different background, is from another country, is dark-skinned and is older than Desdemona, he becomes jealous very quickly of Cassio. Cassio is from the same social class, is compatible with Desdemona and is a young handsome man. Iago has also convinced Cassio to seek favor with Desdemo...
This character is so noble, Othello's feelings and actions follow so inevitably from it and from the forces brought to bear on it, and his sufferings are so heart-rending, that he stirs a passion of mingled love and pity which readers feel for no other hero in Shakespeare, and to which not even Mr Swinburne can do more than justice. Yet there are some critics and not a few readers who cherish a grudge against him. They do not merely think that in the later stages of his temptation he showed a certain obtuseness, and that, to speak pedantically, he acted with unjustifiable precipitance and violence; no one, I suppose, denies that. But, even when they admit that he was not of a jealous temper, they consider that he was "easily jealous"; they seem to think that it was inexcusable in him to feel any suspicion of his wife at all; and they blame him for never suspecting Iago or asking him for evidence. I refer to this attitude of mind chiefly in order to draw attention to certain points in the story. It comes partly from inattention (for Othello did suspect Iago and did ask him for evidence); partly from a misconstruction of the text which makes Othello appear jealous long before he really is so; [Endnote 2] and partly from failure to realise certain essential facts. I will begin with these.
His soliloquy of internal conflict highlights the role jealousy plays in the work because if Othello would speak to Desdemona instead of blindly accuse her, he would be spared from his pain. He would be able to avoid all of this turmoil if he did not focus on rumors and, in turn, acted out of reason instead of
Othello is one of the more romantic figures in Shakespeare’s works and tells fantastical tales of his strange life of adventure and exotic lands, which is what swoons Desdemona to marry him in the first place. She says she “saw Othello’s visage in his mind” and is able to look past his blackness and appreciate the brilliance of his imaginative mind (I.iii.247). However, Othello’s imagination is ultimately what causes him to become jealous. Through careful construction of images in Othello’s imagination, Iago has convincing power to drive Othello into a jealous state of rage. When Othello asks for ocular proof of Desdemona’s infidelity, Iago instead gives him imaginary depictions of Cassio and Desdemona, which to Othello are deems as the truth. As Othello’s sensible mind starts to decline, these images dictate his judgments and he becomes so engulfed with the evidence presented to him that he easily believes in Iago’s negative portrayal of Desdemona. When Othello asks Iago if Cassio can be trusted, Iago merely instead talks about infidelity, cuckoldry, and disloyalty to let Othello’s imagination run wild. Eventually, Othello chastises Iago since his mind is imaging the many possibilities that could’ve
Othello is the one of a succession of tragic masterpieces that Shakespeare wrote in the early years of the 16th century. The race is the important element in the “Othello”. In this play, Othello, the main character was a black Moor and in fact, the image of black, white, light and darkness are most often repeated in the play, Othello. In the play Othello, his blackness makes him an outsider in the eyes of the Venetian society and also in his own eyes; and that is why he doubts himself as a proper match for the white Desdemona. This play is about Othello, the main leader, (Black man) secretly marrying a white woman (Desdemona). In the first scene of the play, Roderigo and Lago begin with Othello racial epithets, not
The Tragedy of Othello by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in 1603. The story tells about a Moor general in the Venetian Army, who had been convinced that his wife, Desdemona, has been disloyal to him. Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Othello to examines how suspicion can poison a true love and lead to betrayal. Shakespeare is famous in his use of repeatedly themes throughout his writings, predominantly those of love, death, magic, and betrayal. Shakespeare's play of Othello present all these theme, however, it mainly focuses on the danger of jealousy and how it can be the root of all evil. Iago’s jealousy did not only lead to Othello’s downfall, but also destroyed friendships, love, and innocent lives.
Othello firmly believes Desdemona betrayed him. Out of honor, he knew he must follow through, otherwise she will hurt other men. He kisses her repeatedly and weeps at the thought of losing her. After learning the truth, Othello proclaims, “I look down towards his feet; but that’s a fable./If that thou be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee./I am not sorry either: I’ld have thee live;/For, in my sense, ‘t is happiness to die” (5.2.89). Othello decides it is better to die than to live without Desdemona. His language reveals how saddened he is by the turn of events and the anger he directs towards Iago. Othello desires Iago to feel the grief and anger he feels. Moments later, Othello dies upon a kiss, just as Desdemona.
The Emotions of Othello The motion of this play was based on the relationship or the friendships between Othello, Iago, and Cassio. Although the women in this book played a large role in adding to the vengeful, powerful feel in this play, it all ceased from the relationship between the three men. This play was filled with many different emotions, given by each of the characters when they interacted with each other. The emotions that mainly evolved in this play were: Power, jealousy, revenge and very questionable love between the characters. This story shows how power is such a strong desire of people, that some will stop at nothing to get it and hurting people is an option if they have to do it. This all began with Othello, who is the main character in this book. Othello was a Moor and a General in the Venetian army. He was a very powerful man who made large decisions, one decision which he made changed his life forever. Othello was very trustworthy and trusted. He had so much trust in the people that he was close to, that it affected his life and he believed many things that he should not have. Because of an overabundance of trust and belief in others, this caused him to become a rageful, jealous man. All of his better characteristics were pushed aside deep down in his soul and allowed the worst to get the best of him. All of this jealous rage in Othello came from the lies that the manipulative, evil Iago had told Othello of his wife Desdemona.