During the time when Othello was written, there was a strong sense of racism and hatred towards coloured people in society and this is made apparent through the characters and their speeches. ... In Shakespeare's time, black people were seen as inferiors as humans and also in their roles in society. ... In Act 1 Scene 3 , Iago informs Brabantio of his daughter's marriage to Othello. ... The Elizabethan period was seen as a time of great change where lower class people of the hierarchy began to challenge the powers of the higher class. ... Look to your house, your daughter and your...

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Only daughter of Brabantio, a very important man in the Venetian high society of the day. Brabantio tried to find a suitor for his daughter like any father of the time but she rejected them all. ... Desdemona is Brabantio's only daughter and his last link to his wife, who died. ... I am hitherto your daughter but here's my husband ; " My first impression of Desdemona is that she is strong willed and a very passionate person. ... If she did not press Othello about Cassio when he was clearly upset maybe there would have been time for the truth to emerge. ...

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Despite sharing a similar fate, the protagonists' unique approach to racism demonstrates the changing values of contexts across time and culture. ... Under a different time period, Desi is granted much more power and rights than Desdemona as a woman. ... The dehumanizing statements such as "she is stolen from me" and "I won her daughter" further evokes the Elizabethan paradigm. ... Empowerment of woman individuality and rising concerns towards racism are beneficial values which ascended through time. ... Despite her father's strong denial against her relationship,...

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Machiavelli believed that these rules could be discovered by deduction from the political practices of the time, as well as from those of earlier periods. ... The visual imagery that Shakespeare uses in this particular speech by Roderigo strongly describes the main character, Othello, as a grotesque, bestial figure who has taken Brabanzio's delicate daughter into his grasp. ... As partly I find it your fair daughter, at this odd-even and dull watch o" th" night transported with no better or worse guard but with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, to the gross clasps of a lascivious [lu...

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This is derived from his decision to marry the daughter of a powerful senator of Venice. ... Othello is harassed by Desdemona's father, who claims that he used magic to steal his daughter from him. ... Therefor he is isolated physically much of the time. ... Aaron is a smart man, and he uses his intelligence to guide Demetrius and Chiron to rape Lavinia, Titus's daughter. ... Yet the only time that Aaron actually kills or attacks someone is when his own child is in danger. ...

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This is derived from his decision to marry the daughter of a powerful senator of Venice. ... Othello is harassed by Desdemona's father, who claims that he used magic to steal his daughter from him. ... Therefor he is isolated physically much of the time. ... Aaron is a smart man, and he uses his intelligence to guide Demetrius and Chiron to rape Lavinia, Titus's daughter. ... Yet the only time that Aaron actually kills or attacks someone is when his own child is in danger. ...

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Brabantio believes Othello, has swayed Desdemona with his dark magic, "My Daughter! Oh my Daughter!" ... Brabantio accepts his daughter's decision and joins their hands together, "Come Hither Moor, I here do give thee that with all my heart,"" (Shakespeare 789.) ... " Othello loses his sense of reality when Desdemona speaks of Cassio at this time; he is enraged with her and he begins to scream for the handkerchief. ...

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However, despite the initial contradictions to their associated stereotypes, they all gradually regress into the social moulds and assumptions of the dominant social system of the time, making the play all the more tragic. In Othello, the main character after whom the play is named is presented as an honest, kind and respected black man, in service to the Venetian state, who recently married Desdemona, the Venetian senator Brabantio's daughter. ... This insulting reference to Othello's race, while seemingly frank and shocking to the contemporary audience, would have been less so ...

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You are the lord of duty,/ I am hitherto your daughter/ But here's my husband,/ And so much duty as my mother showed/ To you, preferring you before her father,/ So much I challenge that I may profess/ Due to the Moor my lord. ... She has grown up being a faithful and loving daughter to her father, giving him her allegiance at all times. ... She attempts to plead her case of innocence one last time to her murderous husband before accepting her death. ...

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Since this play is written during a racist time, someone like Othello for example, is not considered fit for the throne. Because of this, Shakespeare creates Othello's character as someone who everyone looks up to, so that he would be worthwhile of everyone's time. ... Even when Brabantio doesn't like the fact that Othello had married his daughter, he still treats Brabantio with respect. ... Othello tells his wife that he kissed her before he killed her, and now that he's killed himself, he will kiss her one last time. ...

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This is the first time in the play there is potential for violence, how ever Othello takes control of the situation and is calm as he resolves the potential conflict by replying "keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them good signor you shall more command with years than with your weapons were it my cue to fight I would have known it without a prompter" which shows his ability to resolve a difficult situation. ... Othello must have even been respected by Brabantio as he claims "her farther loved me" and they spent time together where Othello recounted past adventures which seem...

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Othello falls in love with and marries Desdemona, the daughter of a well-known Venetian senator. ... He only recently began courting Desdemona and has not yet invested the time and commitment to the relationship that forges trust. ... Any seed of distrust lingering in the backdrop of their sacred vows can, at any time, be stimulated. ...

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This only is the witchcraft I have used:" During Act 1, scene 3 Othello is brought before the Duke of Venice and is accused of disillusioning senator Barbantio's daughter into marrying him. ... Come, Desdemona: I have but an hour Of love, of worldly matters and direction, To spend with thee: we must obey the time. ... The whole time Othello is listening in on the conversation and is begging for a chance to spring on Cassio for all the hurtful things he says about Desdemona. ...

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Primarily, Othello is aware that race is an obstacle, which Brabantio must overcome in order to support his daughter's relationship. ... Othello is pushing Desdemona away for some time showing that he needs a break from this argument. ... He shows how he still has a hard time believing Iago but cannot take the risk to undergo the confirmation that he has lost the love that he thought was going to be there forever. ...

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With Roderigo he plants several ideas that Othello is overly aristocratic and does not correspond with the 'vernacular' of the time period even for a man in his position as general. ... This image suggests both that Othello is old and stimulates Brabantio into becoming irritated by the thought of his daughter marrying a black man. ...

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