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“The meaning of Othello’s murdering Desdemona depends on their marriage and their marriage’s meaning is invested in Othello’s blackness” (Little 306). The racism drove him crazy and Iago didn’t make it better. When Iago tells Othello that Desdemona was cheating on him, he thought that his blackness and Moorish characteristics changed her and made her do it because Iago and other characters like Brabantio said it would. When Othello killed Desdemona, his literal blackness became metaphorical (Little 322). As soon as Emilia found out that Othello murdered Desdemona, she had to bring race into the conversation; she made a racist comment by calling him a “blacker devil.” He ends up becoming a whoremonger, a beast, and a devil (Little 322). The racial and non-racial comments that most of the characters made towards him must have been true or became
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“To understand Othello’s position, one must appreciate not only his African characteristics, but his position as a black man in a Venetian society; he is the Moor of Venice” (Berry 318). Othello’s alienation played a big role in the play. Othello’s dark skin color isn’t only a mark of his physical isolation, but it also represents several different symbols. They were very stereotypical. Othello’s skin color is black and in the Elizabethan era, being black symbolized ugly, treachery, lust, bestiality, demonic, dishonest, and unintelligent (Berry 319). Those are just a few of the …show more content…
He starts to get more helpless against the plots of Iago as he later tries to manipulate him and after that he is left to adapt to his issues alone in the light of the fact that he has nobody that he can trust and express his feeling and emotions to.
In summary, Othello’s race and the racism that was around him staggeringly affected his life. The theme of racism in Othello was one of the most important themes. His blackness and the racism affected his life by ruining his marriage with Desdemona, alienating him from everybody in Venice, and by making him an easy target to be manipulated by Iago. Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most relevant and well known plays because of how accurate and relatable it is. Most of the things that happened in Othello still happen today like racism, stereotypes, manipulation, and
“To understand Othello’s position, one must appreciate not only his African characteristics, but his position as a black man in a Venetian society; he is the Moor of Venice” (Berry 318). Othello’s alienation played a big role in the play. Othello’s dark skin color isn’t only a mark of his physical isolation, but it also represents several different symbols. They were very stereotypical. Othello’s skin color is black and in the Elizabethan era, being black symbolized ugly, treachery, lust, bestiality, demonic, dishonest, and unintelligent (Berry 319). Those are just a few of the …show more content…
He starts to get more helpless against the plots of Iago as he later tries to manipulate him and after that he is left to adapt to his issues alone in the light of the fact that he has nobody that he can trust and express his feeling and emotions to.
In summary, Othello’s race and the racism that was around him staggeringly affected his life. The theme of racism in Othello was one of the most important themes. His blackness and the racism affected his life by ruining his marriage with Desdemona, alienating him from everybody in Venice, and by making him an easy target to be manipulated by Iago. Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most relevant and well known plays because of how accurate and relatable it is. Most of the things that happened in Othello still happen today like racism, stereotypes, manipulation, and