Othello - Shakespeare

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Othello GCSE assignment

Othello is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies; it is one of Shakespeare's finest moments. It is a play that interests the audience straight away and keeps them interested with Desdemona's great love for Othello, Othello's dissension into a murderer, Roderigo's obsession with Desdemona and Iago's evil plotting. With so much going on Shakespeare can use dramatic devices with ease, he can plant ideas into the reader's minds and he also manages to use the play to show his views on the world around him.

This play has many deeper thoughts running through it such as the marriage between black Othello and white Desdemona. While this isn't frowned upon that much in the play, - in fact, most of the characters look up to him and call him names such as "valiant Moor," showing their respect. I think that Shakespeare is making a stance towards racial equality especially by placing Othello as highest-ranking officer in Cyprus. The other point that is shown in the play is the role of women in the play. There are three main women in the play, Desdemona, the wife of Othello; Emilia, the wife of Iago; and Bianca, the girlfriend of