William Shakespeare's Othello is a book that is open to a wide range of different critical interpretations. ... In Shakespeare's time, black people were seen as inferiors as humans and also in their roles in society. ... With Iago and Othello, Shakespeare challenges racist attitudes by depicting Othello as being black-coloured, but being the good guy and Iago as the white, but evil man. ... It is likely that Shakespeare intended Bianca's character to be that of a common prostitute and from this scene, this can be interpreted by feminists as saying that women are only good for on...

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Furthermore, men who had the advantage of education, contemporary male peer groups and/or male literary forefathers, they could learn and work from, only served to reinforce the exclusively male dominated medium that produced the literary icons of the time One can see that Woolf's argument substantiated by studying the inequalities in educational, financial and social background by comparing herself with another nineteenth century writer, William Wordsworth. ... Here in the plays of William Shakespeare, poems of Edgar Allen Poe, the stories of Jonathan Swift and/or other predominant...

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William Shakespeare's The Tempest provides a historical reference of the social expectations and stereotypes enforced upon women in Elizabethan times. Despite having only one predominant female character, Miranda, the play serves to illustrate the characteristics that epitomize the ideal woman withi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate