Essays on Othello

The play that shall be used as a case study in this essay is the Shakespearean tragedy, Othello. Written in 1603, the first performance was recorded a year later in the newly ordained king James I’s court. Whilst the play is set in 1570, and focuses on the war between Venice and the Ottoman empire,...

The renaissance or golden age is the time during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth’s reign lasted from 1558 to 1633, where Queen Elizabeth occupied the throne after her sister, Mary, who was her half-sister died (John S. Morrill Stephen J. Greenblatt, 2019). Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, which also ended the 16th century...

Racism is prejudice discriminative antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. In William Shakespeare’s play Othello, racism is evident throughout the play. The primary beliefs of the Elizabethan era concerning race and culture are essential to Othello’s tragic death. The enlightening theme of racial...

In the play, Othello by Shakespeare Othello is the protagonist who is portrayed as a war hero and shows great pride in his reputation. At the beginning of the play, there is an announcement that Othello the Moor has gotten married to the daughter of a nobleman named Desdemona. Throughout, the course of the play...

Jealousy is feeling or showing envy of someone or their achievements and advantages. Everyone has been jealous sometime in their life. Jealousy is a relevant theme that comes up in William Shakespeare’s play, Othello. Othello is a very interesting play that represents the continuous Ruin of a general as he easily trusts the wrong people...

The linguistic and literary techniques used in William Shakespeare’s Othello enhance the meaning of the plot and characters. It is a tragedy-based play that explores many ideas and themes essential to the story using language employed throughout the scene shown in Act 1 scene 3. A meeting that takes place between the senators and the...

William Shakespeare has been hailed as one of the best plays writes in history by countless sources for hundreds of years. Known to be eccentric, Shakespeare did not shy away from provocative themes; as exemplified in his play, Othello. The tale set in the sixteenth century in Venice and Cyrus. Othello the Moor, is used...

Shakespeare wrote Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Elizabethian era, during a patriarchal Venetian society. During this time, women didn’t have as many leniencies per se, compared to men of the time; this was due to the strict social hierarchy. Stereotypically, women were mostly responsible for maintaining the home, barring and feeding children,...

Is Othello a Tragic Hero ? Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher distinguished a tragic hero as a protagonist with valiant stature but ultimately who faces his downfall due to a tragic flaw in character or error in judgement. According to Aristotle’s definition, Othello can be perceived as a tragic hero. Othello has three traits that...

Othello, one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, is a tragic story of love and hate, life and death. Just like the rest of Shakespeare’s masterful works, Othello has also failed to dodge the scathing limelight of critical interpretations. Besides the strictly critical ones, even more interpretations have arisen around pretty much every spectrum of the...