Shakespeare clearly brings out the importance and irrelevance of the major and minor characters, respectively. ... I found Shakespeare's choice of a black man to be scorned and treated wrongfully indirectly in Othello to be very negative. I felt as if Shakespeare thought black men were futile in the human society as I watched Othello endure contemptuous manners directly and indirectly from Brabantio, Iago, and Roderigo. ... Even though there are people who can understand Shakespeare's language, there are also people such as myself, who have yet a long way to learn Shakespeare and his...

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Barbantio tackles Othello with the theft of his daughter, claiming that he must have worked on her by witchcraft. ... Act IV Iago gives Othello 'proof' of Desdemona's infidelity. Observed by Othello, he draws Cassio into a conversation about a whore, Bianca, who is in love with the lieutenant: Cassio's levity as he talks of her is interpreted by Othello as contempt for his own wife's looseness. ... When an embassy arrives from Venice to relieve Othello of his duties and establish Cassio as his successor, Othello strikes his wife before the venetians. ... Othello, convi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate