Otherness

Othello is a Moorish man living in medieval Venice, who is by all accounts well-respected by most of the other characters. He is rendered “exotic” by his background, but this doesn’t seem to impede the advancements and long strides which he has successfully made over time, through his merit he succeeds in rising to the upper echelons of the Venetian military. As the plot of the play continues to be unwrapped however, the progress and success that he has made for himself is slowly undone. Othello…

comedy show, he is initially met with racism from an audience filled with returned soldiers. Men who are clearly xenophobic due to their own experiences with the “yellow peril”. Yet, Do overcomes this adversity, albeit through his hyperbole of his “otherness”. This leads the soldier to the proclamation that the little Vietnamese immigrant is not so bad…

Dark Romanticism presents not only the good in life, but also the evil that is within. The dark romantic genre puts these views in the literary world, further spreading this mindset through the readers. Authors who influenced this genre tremendously in the 1800’s include Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of The Baskervilles), and especially Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Annabel Lee). The stories these authors created…

Kristeva writes that “abjection persists as exclusion or taboo (dietary or other) in monotheistic religions [...] it finally encounters with Christian sin, a dialectic elaboration, as it becomes integrated in the Christian Word as a threatening otherness––but always nameable, always totalizeable” (Kristeva 17). Kristeva stems most of her understanding…

Othello - Playful Film or Boring Play? William Shakespeare wrote the popular tragedy ‘Othello’ which has been adapted in multiple ways. One particular popular way is live action films. This essay will be discussing the similarities and the differences between Shakespeare’s literary story and Oliver Parker’s 1995 film starring Lawrence Fishburn. The key factors are obviously the same between both versions, the plotand the characters. However, this is where most of the common facts end.…

unknowingly, the hypodermic needle theory. This suggests that individuals in gangs barely have minds of their own and they simply do as they are told to do, which is completely untrue. If this were true, This kind of dialogue also creates a sense of otherness that these individuals are different from higher class citizens and should be treated as such. This is unhealthy dialogue in the struggle to understand one another and to create a society where everyone can prosper. While many newspaper…

The Nazi party, which ruled Germany during the 1930s and 40s, was plagued with radicalized thinking about issues of race and German identity. During the Nazi regime, Germany was responsible for killing millions of Jews, blacks, and other minorities based only on their physical appearance and stereotypes associated with each race. However, after the end of War World II and the fall of the Nazi party, Germany entered a time of rebuilding known as the “Stunde Null” period. Scholars initially…

In Kenneth Waltz’s Man State and War, he argues that “states are motivated to attack each other and to defend themselves by the reason and/or passion of the comparatively few.” Although most focus on the power of these small groups or the logical reasoning, much less attention is paid to the “passion,” where it becomes easy to see how nationalistic sentiments could become influential. John Mearsheimer has paid a great deal of attention to the role of nationalism in state interactions, arguing…

While many men face criticism for their decisions and lifestyles, those who advance from lower societal positions often encounter harsh judgment by those who remain in the original social class. When people achieve a new social status, the new social class hesitates to accept the outsiders. By addressing the struggle of staying authentic while still feeling obligationed to conform, one acknowledges the negotiations and the balance required for acceptance. Society’s expectations of black males…

European intervention" (p. 73). 1 Readers are taught that long before Africans were enslaved, Europeans enslaved one another well before the African Slave trade began. The long term contract of the Mediterranean made Klein doubt the importance of “otherness”, of the African to the northern Europeans explaining the reason of the African slave trade (p17). 1 The History of Europeans slavery would have made you believe Africans, and slavery was not so special to the Europeans (p17). 1 The slave…