Giovanelli is perceived in many ways by the various people around him. While Daisy describes him as a handsome, “tremendously clever,” and “perfectly lovely” man, Winterbourne sees him as “a little man with a handsome face, an artfully poised hat, a glass one eye, and a nosegay in his button-hole.” (p.54) Winterbourne further points out that Giovanelli must be only “a music-master, or a penny-a-liner, or a third-rate artist” who is just doing “a clever imitation” of a gentleman. Still, ironically, Winterbourne admits that Giovanelli seems to be quite a fine, intelligent, tactful, and humble man who is not chasing Daisy for any financial gain. In fact, Giovanelli never tries to interfere with Winterbournes affairs with Daisy either, and there…
Often the most important themes in literature are developed in scenes in which a death or deaths take place. In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, the death of the character Desdemona serves as the climatic breaking point where pervasive racism and sexism can no longer exist without resulting in detrimental harm to the involved parties. It is Othello’s prideful hamartia that, combined with sexism, is the catalyst that ultimately destroys both his and Desdemona’s life. In Othello, the cast of characters is subjected to the mounting pressures of sexism and racism without even realizing the detrimental effects it has on their lives.…
Class as a dominant feature in Othello, utilises the hierarchal structure of Venetian society at the time of the play’s setting, providing a rigid framework within the play to explore cultural and societal values. At the time of Shakespeare writing Othello (1604), England was experiencing political and social unrest as a result of tensions between the monarchy and land owners. There was widespread poverty with the average man not having the right to vote and women possessing no rights at all.1 Shakespeare appropriated the existent political climate and contextualises the piece within an exotic and similarly hierarchal setting. Othello, to the everyman, represents a rare glimpse into the upper echelons of a society in which he has not been born…
Upon hearing the words “racism” and “evilness”, the first instinct of most people is never to connect them. That is because even though racism is an immoral act; it is not directly associated with evilness. However, in Shakespeare’s’ Othello, the motif of racism is linked to the motif of evilness/hell.…
Othello likewise investigates and showcases distinctive situations of prejudice and how it was managed in Venice while sparkling a light on a sentiment turned…
government the majority chooses, its first act is to set up a legislative government in power which is supreme and it can’t be changed unless the whole government is dissolved. The legislative power while supreme within the common wealth cannot be arbitrary, it cannot deprive someone of life, liberty, or a state. If the legislative power did deprive people of life, liberty, or the state no individual would have voluntarily left the natural condition. What has been given to government is the law to enforce nature, so that is what we give up to government when we create a government from within political society. We give it the right to enforce the law of nature.…
Othello was tricked and lied to but because of his insecurities it made him more vulnerable. Throughout the play Shakespeare tried to make Othello character the opposite of stereotypes by making him a nobleman with achievements and respect but toward the end it made Othello character embrace the stereotype of being a dangerous black male. Shakespeare let institutionalized racism become the center of what the play was about to show society how they are corrupting and judging people based on the color of their…
Othello and The Merchant of Venice were written by William Shakespeare. The two plays were based on the same period of time and took place in the same area, which was Venice, Italy. Shakespeare likes make his plays have similarities to each other. Not only to have similar situations but to have similar characteristics of that situation.…
Overall, the author gives great consideration to both sides of the argument, however the general agreement is that it 's truly the audiences opinion. I will utilize this source to prove the argument between weather Shakespeare presents the reader with a set theme of racism, or if he simply provides the reader with the element of race and leaves the interpretation up to the reader…
Within society, both past and present, we can discern a myriad of façades which present a deceptive outer appearance. William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Willy Russell’s Educating Rita and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover are works of literature which diversely consider a vast array of characters and situations which demonstrate such façades within society. These façades may be actively used by a character or be surrounding an abstract concept or institution, such as wealth or education. The authors use different methods to explore these façades as well as demonstrating their effects on characters as the works progress.…
Some perplexing social issues, such as bigotry and envy, have passed from one generation to the next, affecting those that suffer from them. William Shakespeare, a well-known poet, often wrote plays including these controversies. One of these plays, Othello, is about a black man named Othello who faces prejudice due to his ethnicity. He is a proud and capable general in battle, which has won him the favor of the senate. Yet his place in society as a Moor keeps him feeling insecure when it comes to his wife, Desdemona.…
Merchant of Venice Annotation Analysis: ACT IV External Conflict: External Conflict is marked by a characteristic involvement of an action wherein a character finds himself in a struggle without outside forces. Textual Evidence: “Hates any man the thing he would kill it?” (IV.I.67).…
Prejudice is defined as “a hostile or negative attitude toward people in a distinguishable group based solely on their membership in that group; it contains cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components” (Aronson, Wilson, Akert, Sommers, 2016). The cognitive component of prejudice is evidenced in the basic classification of Jewish people as a lower class of citizens by the Nazi regime. The emotional component can be witnessed throughout the film where we see members of the Nazi regime aloof to the plight of the Jews and at times scoffing at their misery. This line of thinking eventually progressed to the point of dehumanizing the Jews as a people all together. In the case of the Holocaust, prejudices eventually led to discrimination which can be considered the behavioral component.…
It is clear to see the similarities between the plays The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe and The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. Marlowe is thought to have been a contemporary of Shakespeare and he would have looked towards Shakespeare and his famous comedy for inspiration for his own work. One of the most significant similarities between the two plays is their Jewish characters, Barabas from The Jew of Malta and Shylock from The Merchant of Venice. However, it is said that Barabas is the more extreme version of Shylock. In this essay, the similarities and differences between these two Jews will be discussed with reference to the two plays The Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta.…
How and to what extent does Shakespeare create sympathy for the character of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice? In the Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare depicts Shylock as a complicated character whom is easy detest due to his headstrong, money-hungry and vengeful nature. However, there are many instances in which sympathy for Shylock is generated, especially when he is pushed around and abused by the Christians and when he deals with losing his daughter. Shakespeare gives an insight into all these aspects of Shylock’s character through the exploration of the themes of social injustice and revenge, the motifs of the law and gold and the relationship between Shylock and Jessica.…