Stereotypes In Othello

In Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello,the title character is a 16th century Moorish general of the venetian army who,because of the cultural and historical background of the playwright,and the original intended audience,is portrayed as both well-respected for his military prowess and disparaged for his race.Similarly,because of the way hispanics are view as hard workers and indolent. In today’s American Latinos/Hispanics society,they are both hard workers for having that mentality on working and having a happy family And most people treat them as used workers to get the job done and still insult them as lazy workers. In Venice, Othello was a strong lieutenant who was mostly discriminated because of his racial features that question most of the people who honor him. It brings one of the reasons why Iago wanted to be against him and take all of his power. In Act 1 Scene 3 it evaluates by saying ¨grave, and reverend signiors,/My very noble and approved good masters,/That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter¨ In Othello by shakespeare the moor most of the time is trying to fit in Venice to convince everyone who he really …show more content…
Hispanics/latinos are value as hard workers who live on their lives on working, but discriminated each day as immigrants who are loud. When someone hears of a Mexican guy/girl they attribute the first concepts of someone who cross the border, took away american jobs and are mostly aggressive in their own. In article of (Latinos Voices)it says “Thus,how Americans view Latino immigrants affects how they feel about immigration policy and,in this case,Latino stereotypes have a negative impact on immigration especially on hot-button issues such as unemployment,schools and crime.” This gives an idea on how most people believe on immigrants that evaluate them self to this country who is just discriminating them for making this country