Shakespeare’s play, Othello is mostly concentrated upon one particular evil. The action concerns sexual jealousy. And although human sinfulness is such that, jealousy ceaselessly touches on other forms of depravity, the center of the interest always returns in Othello to the destruction of the love through jealousy, so for that reason in this essay I’m going to talk about the jealousy in which almost everybody in this play is going through.
In the play Othello we can fine like a battle that is realized through a taut narrative of jealousy and murder. Also in this play the jealousy is presenting by several characters like: Othello, Roderigo, Bianca, and Iago we can say that they’re irrational behavior to that of Leontes, the jealous husband of Hermoine in ” The Winter’s Tale” , and assert that each display as form of sexual jealousy. Iago, however, exhibits ” an all- encompassing jealousy directed not only against sexual love, but also against love itself in all it’s manifestations”.
In “Othello”, we can fine kind of materialism in a way becaus…
The Racism in Othello
The Racism in Othello
Throughout the duration of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Othello, there is a steady stream of racism. It is originating from not one, but rather several characters in the play.
In the opening scene, while Iago is expressing his dislike, rather hatred, for the general Othello for his having chosen Michael Cassio for the lieutenancy, he contrives a plan to partially avenge himself (“I follow him to serve my turn upon him”), with Roderigo’s assistance, by alerting Desdemona’s father, Brabantio, to the fact of his daughter’s elopement with Othello. Roderigo shares Iago’s prejudiced attitude toward Othello: “What a full fortune does the thicklips owe / If he can carry’t thus!” The word thicklips is a disparaging reference to a facial characteristic of many members of the black race. When, by loud shouting, Brabantio is awakened, Iago commences with a series of racial epithets:
Zounds, sir, you’re robb’d; for shame, put on
your gown;
Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul;
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is topping your white ewe. Arise, arise;
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:
Arise, I say. (1.1)
The phrase old black ram and the word devil both make reference in an offensive manner to dark skin color. The allusion to white ewe has the effect of putting Othello’s darkness into sharp contrast. A few lines later Iago once again turns his invective fully on Othello with three stinging racial epithets:
‘Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not
serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to
do you service …
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… the blacker devil!
OTHELLO. She turn’d to folly, and she was a whore.
EMILIA. Thou dost belie her, and thou art a devil! (5.2)
Following Iago’s murder of Emilia, he is captured; Lodovico addresses Othello, who is so dejected at having been deceived by his ancient:
O thou Othello, thou wert once so good,
Fall’n in the practise of a damned slave,
What shall be said to thee? (5.2)
Needless to say, damned slave has racial overtones. Shortly thereafter, the hero, in remorse for the tragic mistake he has made, stabs himself and dies on the bed next to his wife, his sorrow being as deep as his love.
WORKS CITED
Shakespeare, William. Othello. In The Electric Shakespeare. Princeton University. 1996. http://www.eiu.edu/~multilit/studyabroad/othello/othello_all.html No line nos.