Othello by William Shakespeare | Summary and Analysis

Othello by William Shakespeargon Summary and AnalysisOthello, is a genuinely distinguishn d ramatist written by the famous writer William Shakespeare. If you are a person who have read hu compositionityy of his works you would know that his writings are based on love, triumph and tragedy overly. in force(p) by reading Othello I can manifest that the recital is virtually jealously and betrayal of lovers, and some star ends up dead because of the drama touch on with it. Unluckily I will non make known of the summary of the playwright, nor tell close to or give an simple analysis of the characters involved in the invention. I will give you an examination of the racial connections in the playwright Othello, and relate it to the racial prejudices of Jacobean England. I will be honest, when I first read Othello, I did not quite downstairsstood how course was placed into the playwright, and why it had anything to do with Othello, because the theme of the story was basicall y about betrayal and jealously between two lovers who were separated over jealously. When I did research about Othello and racial discrimination, and read Othello continuously, I slowly began to realize that escape did have some kind of involvement into it. Racism seemed to be a big issued in the old age of Shakespeare and former(a)s. Some writers wrote their stories based on the hostel they was in and make it quite recognizable in their story, England and former(a) nations had problems with execute right as we did in America Othello is a story that made that obvious, Shakespeare puts in different racial stereotypes into the dialogues, giving them to characters like Iago, Roderigo and Branbantio.In the seventeenth century, People of England attitudes toward non-Europeans like North Africans and others were verbalise to be shaped by policies and stories by travelers. The term moor came from a country that was used to tinct to passel from North Africa. People of North and West Africa who was living in the Elizabethan England was put out because of their unusual style of dress, behaviors and culture customs. Moors were withal talked about and was put in the category of being sexually active and being a more jealous people. faery Elizabeth gave the moors full scholarship out of quick niceness for their help in defeating Spain, merely alas that was quickly teared over fast and she deported the North Africans or Moors because of severity and unusual behavior and the fear of if she let them stay in England than at that place would end up being an overpopulation of foul people and she seemed to definitely not want that. Back in that cartridge holder period in England down in the mouths were not associated with the slavery time period that we all know of, because the slave time period started late in the 17th century. single part in Othello that opened up my eyes and made me realize that race it was an issue, was when they mouth of different cultur es like the Turkish culture and the Vietnamese culture. In Othello it verbalize that the people in Othello had celebrated the destruction of the Turkish force, I agnize that t here were some kind of cultural division in the playwright Othello. As I went on with my research and read some of the sources that helped me all understand the issue, I understood that racism was one of the issues in Othello. One of my sources that I read named Shakespeare and Race discussed that some of the racial issues in Othello also in all likelihood had something to do with Shakespeare and the society that he was in, not just the racism acted on the Vietnam society in the play Othello. I also in condition(p) that the character Othello who was Desdemonas love was an African or an Moor in the story. A moor is once again defined as an member of a nomadic people, who civilization flourished in North Africa between the 8th and the fifteenth centuries. Othello seemed to be culturally divided and assor ted.In order to answer the psyche and understand why racism was a big topic in Othello and why Shakespeare incorporated it into Othello, I had to dig deep and go posterior to the history and the real world outside of the playwright Othello. It also appeared to that the story was written during the time of great racial tensions in England. As I went on I discovered that Shakespeare disguised the blank and the black people in Othello. He made the white people seem horror and the black people seem as the correct ones. It seemed like Shakespeare was onerous to make a point, a point of no matter what excuse a person is, we are all humans. Mainly because this was true, back then, whites seemed to be over people of color, while people of color was so called substandard under white people.Queen Elizabeth also made contributions to racism in England ,this might have stemmed off to racism in Othello. In the book English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern romp it express that When Qu een Elizabeth ruled England she exiled ten Africans from her country, then afterwards Queen Elizabeth traded the Africans for the imprisoned English men held in Spain and Portugal.(pg5 English Ethnicity and Race.) . This was similar to what I stated earlier. After the end of Elizabeths ruling Elizabethan England became Jacobean England and was under the rule of King James. Not like his other works, Shakespeare did not modestness the playwright or story of Othello to an earlier time period. Historians also stated that by the time William Shakespeare wrote Othello, England had already been exposed to Africans or blacks. Terri Vaughn an History prof of Columbia University stated that by the year 1555, there were books in England describing the Africans or as they verify the Moors of Africa.(Vaughn).I also knowing from my research that in the sixteenth century the meaning of the color black was defined as deeply stained with dirt or being dirty. Writers such as William Shakespeare an d others referred to any dark person from North African as a Moor or a black moor. I also learned that white people or light skinned blacks that was from Africa wasnt considered an moor because they couldnt tell if they was from Africa or not. When I started to read and understand Othello more I realized that Othello was about a relationship between a black man and a white woman. Usually back in the slavery days if a black man was in a relationship with a white woman he would face some kind of punishment for that. It would have been like an offense or an rule that was broken by the black man. Maybe no connections or association with other nations or countries made it to be that way. England people who went outside of their race were viewed as barbarians. those who fly outside the borders of the known, white world were viewed as barbarians, which means a member of a culture thats un fine-tune and its sometimes considered offensive. Michael Neil states in an article that was written by him called Race in Literature. The term moor probably have existed as a description in terms of color, but not necessarily in terms of its position to the white civilized world .Othello is a play with a lot of racial whole tone in it. writes scholar Michael Neill(1985).In the article called Shakespeare and Race, written by bathroom Stows. it greatly emphasizes that to the Elizabethans the appearance and conduct of the moors was a complete outrage, saying that here was a big difference between themselves and the moors. The article also explained that when William Shakespeare chosed an African or an moor as an hero or general, he wasnt genuinely confused or had lack of knowledge bout racial view or racism, but was more aware of his society who made the divisions of black and white world a big issue.The character named Iago in the story made races remarks about Othello calling him a black ram. Othello is treated unevenly in the story because he is black and not white, if Othello was a white man, Im pretty sure he would have been treated fairly with no names and racial slurs called out at him. Comments of racial remarks are state all through out the story. Emilia also made a racial remark toward Othello, She called him an blacker devil, when she found out that he killed Desdemona. There were other characters who were racial towards Othello like Iago, Emilia, Brabinto, and Roderigo. Iago made the racial comment about Othello, because he simply didnt like the fact that he made lieutenant and that he was married to Desdemona. Iago also made a racist comment to Desdemonas soda pop about Othello and Desdemona. He states, Even now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe. Iago had it in for Othello he simply tried to turn any one against Othello, even Desdemonas dad. some racist comments like thick lips was said about Othello. Yet they were very messy because they never said it in his face.It seemed as if Shakespeare cute race to be known to hi s readers of his stories, he wanted people to see that there wasnt just whites in the world, there were other races in the world also and that people of other races was good also and people of Caucasian decent made blacks and others look like interdict entities. Shakespeare wrote three other plays with non whites and moors in it, They are The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus and of course Othello. Many regard that you will find honest straight up racism and racist sayings and language in Othello. Many also consider that more plays like Othello can examine tools of racism and racist views, with thin an past setting and both within an historical setting and existing context. historic and a contemporary cultural or spiritual context. Some say that Othello is also an very racist play and that it has an racist theme. I think that its not really that racist because Shakespeare shows a woman and a man of enemy races and puts them together. The only thing racist about the play is t he racist comments that the characters say to Othello. It seemed as if racist comments was said when only angered. It seems like it was just depicting the society of that time. Before we had freedom blacks was considered to be under and turn away than whites. But jealousy is more likely to be the theme of Othello.Othello is an historical reading that explores race in other countries and in Literature. It portrayed one of the first love stories of an interracial couple who is destroyed and broken up over hatred and jealous by people who didnt want an accomplish black man to survive and make out in a good situation. Even though William Shakespeare might have lived in an racist place and was surrounded by racist people it showed that he in person wasnt an racist person. Maybe William Shakespeare himself did approve of an relationship of an white woman and black man. Maybe he wanted to show that he was a good person and wasnt like others that was around him at the time. Ruth Cowhig wr ote in an do called Othello and Racism. In the excerpt, Ruth Cowhig provides a simple background on blacks in England during William Shakespeares time. She simply states that the character Iagos racism is the main source of his hatred towards Othello. He gives off an prejudice energy toward other characters in the story to turn them against Othello the Moor also (Cowhig, R). Ruth Cowhig emphasize that William Shakespeare continuously examines stereotypes with his story of Othello. I think the opening of the play presents an opportunity to discuss a form of issues and stereo typing including interracial marriage. Othello gives us a lesson and something to think about, particularly in society today and things that seemed to happen in the past.