Cultural criticism is exploring or examining the relationship of dominant role based on ethnicity, and sexual identity of person, also a great understanding of yourself. Historical is basically know the background story before you making assumptions off the text, and to better understand text lookup time period close to the time like 1600’s for Othello by William Shakespeare. To sum up the whole play Othello, in act one Othello is Accused of using black magic, witchcraft, and etc on Desdemona by her father Brabantio. Othello tells he that is not using magic or witchcraft on Desdemona she just fell in love with his war story. And also state that Brabantio used to love him and his war story. In Othello by William Shakespeare Othello representatives
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According to Kim, “ A miasma of plague hangs around Shakespeare's dramatic corpus, and Othello is a topical response to its occasional outbreak in 1603” ( Kim 1). Othello skin color was the same response as the outbreak in 1603, known as the plague. Brabantio was acting like Othello had a disease when he found out that he married his daughter. Instead of Othello getting mad or going on the run, about him trying to come and kill or arrest him. Othello stay calm and waits for him, “ Not I, I must be found. / My parts, my title, and my perfect soul / Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?” (Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 31-33). He turns a bad situation into a better one by compromise with the farther by listening to his feelings, and telling him in a calm manner that he didn’t do anything wrong to Desdemona and that it is all willingly. In this play Othello, Othello is put in a lot dramatic irony situation with Iago. Because Iago was always set Othello up, the audiences knew exactly what Iago was up to but Othello didn’t.
And to sum up this whole idea,Othello was a great representation of a Historical-Cultural figure starting with the way he’s treated, to his responses to it, ending with the way he compromise with the different situations that comes his way. Othello has a high statues on the great chain of being based on the respected he gets in battle but other than that he is considered being in the subordinate group. Throughout the play Othello was not what anyone
According to Kim, “ A miasma of plague hangs around Shakespeare's dramatic corpus, and Othello is a topical response to its occasional outbreak in 1603” ( Kim 1). Othello skin color was the same response as the outbreak in 1603, known as the plague. Brabantio was acting like Othello had a disease when he found out that he married his daughter. Instead of Othello getting mad or going on the run, about him trying to come and kill or arrest him. Othello stay calm and waits for him, “ Not I, I must be found. / My parts, my title, and my perfect soul / Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?” (Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 31-33). He turns a bad situation into a better one by compromise with the farther by listening to his feelings, and telling him in a calm manner that he didn’t do anything wrong to Desdemona and that it is all willingly. In this play Othello, Othello is put in a lot dramatic irony situation with Iago. Because Iago was always set Othello up, the audiences knew exactly what Iago was up to but Othello didn’t.
And to sum up this whole idea,Othello was a great representation of a Historical-Cultural figure starting with the way he’s treated, to his responses to it, ending with the way he compromise with the different situations that comes his way. Othello has a high statues on the great chain of being based on the respected he gets in battle but other than that he is considered being in the subordinate group. Throughout the play Othello was not what anyone