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Drama Othello. LONG ESSAY DRAMA-OTHELLO BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Jessica Higgins
Throughout the centuries, people have been marginalised ...
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LONG ESSAY
DRAMA-OTHELLO BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Jessica Higgins
Throughout the centuries, people have been marginalised on account of their ethnicity. It is a timeless issue. The process begins with one dominant group, who exclude the minor group, on basis of inferiority. The feeling of superiority from the dominant group or culture may not be intentional, but is often a prevailing attitude at the time, which subtly influences people. Human kind through all of time is known for rejecting the unfamiliar, which is surely demonstrated in Othello, by William Shakespeare. In Othello, one man is excluded or set apart on the grounds of his being an outsider. His name is Othello. There are many methods, subtle and obvious, that Shakespeare uses to show Othello's exclusion and how he is devalued.
Othello is a black protagonist in the play, Othello. He differs from all of the other characters, because he is not a native European. Other characters notice and use his race and ethnicity as a means to belittle him. He is identified by other characters as being a ..Moor.' The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula. The way that other characters respond and speak and about Othello enlightens the viewer on their feelings towards him, and makes the viewer feel that perhaps there is a certain amount of racism happening in the time that Othello was written. The characters certainly demonstrate signs of being xenophobic, which perhaps reflected the general feeling at the time. An example of this is when Iago blackens Othello's name in the first act, to Brabantio, a Venetian Senator, and Desdemona's father. He uses crude, racist language to appeal to the senator's established attitudes, including such phrases as, "Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe! (1.i.87-88) Iago even goes so far as to suggest that Brabantio's grandchildren will be animals because of his daughter's...
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