Emotional Destruction
The tragedy Othello, was written in a time of great racial tensions in
England. According to Eldred Jones, in 1600 just three years before Othello
was written, Queen Elizabeth proclaimed an order for the transportation of all
"negars and blackmoores" out of the country . It is in this manner that
Shakespeare began the masterpiece of Othello, a drama about a noble black
Arab general, Othello, who falls in love with and marries, Desdemona, a
young white daughter of a senator. In the tragedy not only is Othello
susceptible to weaknesses but so is every major character . The tragedy
reminds humans that even one's good nature can be taken advantage of for
the worse. In Shakespeare's Othello, characters are strongly affected by their
influential emotions of love, jealousy, and hate which ultimately lead to chaos
and tragedy in the end.
All the relationships in the play demonstrate the vulnerability involved
with love. Each of the relationships in......
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