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After the machinations of Iago, Othello literally gives his life for what he believes is her lack of “faith.”. It is this complete devotion and trust in Desdemona that Iago is able to undermine by tapping into Othello’s insecurities – social and racial – about his worthiness of Desdemona.
‘Othello’s Racial Identity’ published in 1952 making a detailed effort at exploring Othello’s true ethnic background implying a certain ambiguity found in the text as well as past performances.
This study aims to present a comparative examination of the traces of racism and discrimination in two plays of Shakespeare, Othello and The Merchant of Venice, written in 1603 and around 1598,...
28 lis 2011 · In examining the origins and history of the play's identificatory dynamic, I aim neither to recapture originary meaning nor to correct a history of misreadings, but to reunite race and tragedy in an Othello that speaks to our own critical and cultural circumstances.
the terms "color prejudice" and "racism" and their variants are used interchangeably. 10 All references to Othello are from The Riverside Shakespeare, gen. ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974), with square brackets deleted.
Race. The persistent problem of racism today allows readers to access the play’s use of racial language. The systematic oppression of ethnic minorities, and the resulting discrimination and prejudice, have prevailed throughout history and are depicted in this play.
Othello's allegorical blackness is presumably literal and real, that is, he comes to be seen as having invested blackness with the audience's allegorical presumption. Notwithstanding, the Urszene that represses and repeats-responds to and creates-the meaning of all three of the structural elements
