Othello Persuasive Essay

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‘willow, willow, willow '. Moor, she was chaste, she loved thee, difficult moor, so come my soul to bliss, as I speak true! As speaking as I think, alas, I die."
After Iago kills Emillia, Othello kills Iago, and then he kills himself in a real tragedy and a sad end of the play.
Those are the main characters and their personalities as photos in the play. It can be argued that the characteristic of the society itself, that this play presents, was suitable for this kind of stories. This is so because the society of Venice was not an equal society; it was divided into numerous castes such as dukes, nobles, leaders of army and other people. Therefore, this society was generally considered racist in the way how it looked at others who were different.
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This space of hatred and racism helped Iago to end Othello's marriage through cheat and delusions. Because Othello was considered a stranger in his own society, he believed the wrong story about Desdemona and Cassio and believed that Desdemona could cheat on him with another person of her own race and

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