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In both “Othello” and “Oedipus Rex” to a great extent, the emotions provoked by familiar human experiences are acceptable to all people of all times. It is a fact that “Human nature remains the same (Kiernan Ryan 1989).” Both plays explore issues surrounding emotions like love, envy, jealousy and pride provoked by life experiences such as racism, fate, rifts between parent and child, a quest for position through deception or for justice or an intoxicating sense of being all powerful which transcend time. Most importantly they all are familiar to traditional and contemporary time periods.
Love, that is unconditional love, a universal emotion, is said to transcend all barriers. Desdemona falls in love unconditionally with the idea of a bold, courageous, romantic adventurer who is black and her heart fully consents. Othello confirms this, “She lov’d me for the dangers I had pass’d.” (I.iii.167). She boldly professes her love and devotion to Othello before the Duke and an already angry father when she says, “ That I did love the Moor to live with him…Othello’s visage in his mind, And to his honour and his valiant parts … my soul and fortunes consecrate…Let me go with him.” (I.iii.247-258)
In “Othello” racism and inter-racial marriage have both traditional and contemporary implications. “ In loving and marrying each other, Othello and Desdemona instinctively act according to principles of racial equality and sexual freedom which are still not normative, still far from generally accepted and practiced even in our own day, let alone in Shakespeare\'s (Kiernan Ryan 1989).” The inter-racial marriage between Desdemona and Othello ‘the Moor’ is unacceptable and untraditional. In light of this fact, one can assume that perhaps this is why they eloped. Similar social pressures of our time, for the same reason of sharing their love, force cotemporary couples to elope just as these two have done in the traditional period. Any audience of any time will be...
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