When Roderigo maliciously informs Brabantio that Othello supposedly stole his daughter and has sexual relations with her all the time, he accuses Othello of witchcraft. Brabantio starts to make racist comments towards Othello because he doesn't understand how his daughter could marry a man like Othello who is dark skinned. ... Brabantio makes these racial remarks and accusations of witchcraft because it's the only legitimate way to get his daughter back. ... When Roderigo informs Brabantio that Othello may have stolen his daughter they both make racist comments towards him because ...

• Word Count: 285
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Brabantio feels doubted about whether or not he can keep his property, daughter, contained and safe, he is outraged. ... He's implying that his masculinity has disappeared with his daughter because he could not control his properties sexuality. In this time women were to be submissive, do what was asked of them. ... Brabantio is referring to his daughter Desdemona, as if she were no more than a man's property. He is wondering if Othello could have really violated his daughter without him knowing. ...

• Word Count: 775
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

No matter the circumstance, in that time period racism was natural, and inevitable to every social class. ... In this quote Iago reveals Brabantio's daughters secret marriage. ... He questions how it could possibly be that his obedient daughter could fall for a black man. ... He would rather believe that his daughter is bewitched than the fact that she would be interested in a black man. ... Othello would have been a great candidate for his daughter except for the fact that he is black. ...

• Word Count: 1002
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This theme takes precedence over the entire play and sets up what is one of Shakespeare's most controversial works of the time. ... Brabantio is also one of the racist characters in this play, and he is enraged when he finds out that his daughter, Desdemona, has been seeing "the moor" behind his back. ... Brabantio views Othello as only a black man who isn't worth his daughter's love, and whom he does not see as an equal to himself. This racial tension is rooted from the fact that his daughter is wife to a black man, which again goes along with the time period. ... This is the ...

• Word Count: 1144
• Approx Pages: 5

Iago believes that the Moor is pompous and conceited, and this is visible after only a short period of time. ... " From Iago's point of view (which is all we have at this moment in time) were not sure about how Othello will present himself when he finally makes an appearance. ... When Rodreigo tells Brabantio of his daughter's (Desdemona's) marriage to the Moor, we again aren't sure how he will react or what he thinks of Othello... Brabantio's assumption that she must have been drugged to fall in love with Othello stems not only from his racial bigotry, but also from ...

• Word Count: 683
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Plot Act I In venice, Iago, who feels slighted at the recent promotion of the nobler-born Cassio to lieutenant, rouses Brabantio with news of his daughter Desdemona's elopement with Iago's commander, Othello. Barbantio tackles Othello with the theft of his daughter, claiming that he must have worked on her by witchcraft. ... Her innocence is attested by Emilia, who learns now for the first time that it was the handkerchief which provided the conclusive evidence. ...

• Word Count: 696
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We also discover that Roderigo hates Othello to with By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman' (when Roderigo says his' he is referring to Othello) Iago is biding his time in the demise of Othello as can be obtained from I follow him to serve my turn upon him' telling us that Iago is patient in his waiting for revenge. He feels that if he continues to be servile he will be discarded, we discover this from That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, Wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For naught but provender; and when he's old cashiered. ... Lo...

• Word Count: 1131
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Desdemona's loyalty represents the role of women in the male-dominated society of the time. ... Their marriage is described to Brabantio as one which "an old black ram is tupping you white ewe", and "you"ll have you daughter covered with a Barbary Horse", highlighting that Iago sees Othello as an inferior being. ...

• Word Count: 861
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Men viewed females as property, illustrated in the opening scene where Brabantio describes that he has been 'robb(ed)' when he realises that his daughter Desdemona has run off with Othello, exclaiming that she has been 'stol'n from me.' ... Likewise to the role of women changing from Elizabethan times to a contemporary society as seen through Shakespeare's Othello, the aspect of homosexuality can also be interpreted differently throughout time. Gay, lesbian and queer was seen as a taboo in the Elizabethan era, with the dominating Catholicism religion and the ris...

• Word Count: 902
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On the night of the play's initial setting, Brabantio is woken from his sleep by Roderigo and Iago, who relayed news of a secret marriage between his daughter, Desdemona, and the Moor, Othello. ... At the time, Othello arrogantly dismissed such an accusation, betting "[his] life upon her faith " (I.iii.294). ... In selections from Leo Africanus's The History and Description of Africa, a work written around the same time as Othello, Africanus describes blacks as "shepherds that liue a miserable, toilsome, wretched and beggarly life: they are a rude people, borne of brutish manners ...

• Word Count: 1083
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ever since the beginning of time, the male species have always been dominant. ... In the 17th century the family of the daughter had all rights in the say of whom she shall marry. ... In this time era women were considered servents to their love for their husbands. ...

• Word Count: 976
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout all time that humans exist, the males have always been dominant. ... These lines emphasize that fathers in Shakespeare's time, like Brabantio, consider their daughters as their possessions. ...

• Word Count: 1006
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This language technique heavily emphasises the bestiality view that many Venetians held on 'Moors' at the time. ... The view of women at the time of the 1990s is also expressed through animal symbolism. ... This is a similar view to Othello, where Brabantio warned Othello of his daughter's devious mind. ...

• Word Count: 1144
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Desdemona, courteous and intelligent, is an exemplary to the women of her time, challenging the unuttered bounds of her patriarchal society. ... In the jury scene (Act 1 Scene 3) she says "I am hither to your daughter: but here's my husband, And so much duty as my mother show'd to you, preferring you before her father, so much I challenge that I may profess due to the Moor my lord,". ...

• Word Count: 1213
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Desdemona is the young, sweet, and unsuspecting daughter of Venice nobleman Brabantio. ... She is a woman of the world, full of life's experiences, and she makes no pretense at being innocent, She is a fairly coarse, and almost hard-boiled women, but at the same time a loving, gentle and devoted servant to Desdemona, whom she loves very much. ...

• Word Count: 963
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the beginning of the play when she is brought to the court to defend her relationship with Othello in front of her father, she does so and is honest with her father regardless of the consequences, "To you I am bound for life and education I am hitherto your daughter. ... Another time she is faithful to Othello are her very last words when Emilia asks her who tried to kill her, "Nobody; I myself. ...

• Word Count: 999
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School