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than elk or deer. It contains a specific tone of dominance and power. By being intimate with Othello’s blackness, Desdemona is losing her purity and becoming soiled. Later in the conversation, Iago uses the beast imagery again to emphasize why Brabantio should be worried about Desdemona. He says, “...you’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse; you’ll have your nephews neigh to you (1.1.109-111).” Instead of the ram, Othello’s blackness is now a horse being intimate with Desdemona.…

How is Othello an exploration of institutional racism? In Othello racism played an important role throughout the play. When Othello was originally written in England things between white and black people where not where they are at today. When Othello was written it was around the time of the beginning of the slave trade in Britain, so the way people viewed African were terrible. During this time it was odd to see two people of different races together. Throughout the play Shakespeare did a…

cause a big scene to tell Desdemona's father, Brabantio, that his daughter has left to marry Othello. This is a marriage Brabantio opposes because Othello is black, and Desdemona did not get her father's permission. Brabantio confronts Othello, and they take their argument to the Duke, who has summoned Othello to ask him to sail to Cyprus to stop a Turkish invasion. The Duke gives Desdemona permission to travel with Othello, and basically tell Brabantio that Othello is a good man. By the time…

however he is accused by Brabantio, Desdemona's father, for stealing away his daughter. He is not phased by this accusation, even at sword point, he would rather Brabantio “command with years/ [t]han with [his] weapons”(1.2.60-61). He can not only sway the mind of the women, but the men as well. In providing respect consistently, he conveys other civilized ways of dealing with a conflicts opposed to violence. Othello greets the Duke, Governor of Venice, and Brabantio as a “[m]ost potent, grave…

Micah Williams English 1105 Dan Roos 5/1/16 Othello paper The story of Othello is set in the 16th-century in Venice and Cyprus. Othello a noble black general in the Venetian army, has secretly married a white woman called Desdemona, the daughter of a well-known senator. When he finds out, he is outraged, and accuses Othello of being a witch for a women such as her could not be in love with a black man. Not only does he get grief from her father, but is secretly being plotted against by Lago and…

Othello, Relevance on Modern Society The play Othello by William Shakespeare is a suspenseful love story with many twists and turns. The play is about two people, Othello and Desdemona, who eloped and are of the opposite race. A close friend of Othello’s, Iago, gets jealous because he did not get promoted to lieutenant. This jealousy gets out of hand when he starts to ignore the fact that he is ruining other people’s lives by trying to ignore the fact that he is ruining other people’s lives by…

‘Your actions define who you are’ is a saying prevalent as people mature. As people grow, their actions change, and with it what people think you are and what you know you are: your identity. Who you are greatly impacts the actions you make, and evidence of this can be seen throughout time. Many authors and playwrights use the characters and their identities to push the plot along - William Shakespeare is one of them. In the play Othello, Shakespeare denotes that a person’s identity, both…

Othello, the Moor of Venice The story of Othello, the Moor of Venice was written by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare got the idea of Othello from a writer by the name of Giraldi Cinthio. The original story, was entitled,” Of Unfaithfulness of Husbands and Wives.” In the original story Disdemona was beaten to death with a stocking full of sand, which is quite a bit different from Shakespeare’s Othello, tragedy still befalls Desdemona. (Gioia, 2017) The story was believed to have…

Jealousy To be jealous is a feeling or showing of envy of someone or their achievements and advantages. "Othello" was written by William Shakespeare in 1603. It is about an untrustworthy character Iago who stirs up gossip causing the tragedy to unfold with a moor, Othello, Desdemona his wife, Iago, his wife Emilia and Cassio a lieutenant, and many more characters who fall to Iago 's lies. During the time William Shakespeare was writing the tragedy, Aristotle had set some standards for plays. He…

takes place when Othello’s comrade Iago details to the senator, Brabantio, how Othello has eloped with his daughter. Iago plays on the beliefs that black men are animalistic and beastly, describing the horrors of “an old black ram tupping (the senator’s) white ewe”, and referring to their sexual activity together as “making the beast with two backs”. His language is harsh, consistently drawing on this animal imagery to upset Brabantio, and working with existing racist notions of black mens’…