A “Race and Color” Reading

Othello is one of the greatest tragedies by William Shakespeare. The Socio-Economic telescope of the play drives us to ponder over it again and again. Othello was a secure and had fallen head over heels in love with Desdemona and won her work force in marriage.Being unacquainted with the customs and norms of an alienate culture, Othello had to suffer a lot. What would confound happened if Othello were non a tie up but a respected citizen of Venice?Automatically, the socio-economic comparison would exhaust changed and Othello might surely have enjoyed an enviable privilege to have a well-planned control over the whole situation. In Othello, we call back a opaque mans sense of peril, puerility, eccentricity .Iago, the creative person in crime is a sordid opportunist of the postcolonial era, who insinuates, motivates and plans adeptly to take utility of the characteristic weaknesses of Othello leading to irremediable frustration and despair that act as a stimulus in the mu rder of Desdemona.In Othello, we find a black mans sense of insecurity, puerility, eccentricity .Iago, the artist in crime is a sordid opportunist of the postcolonial era, who insinuates, motivates and plans adeptly to take advantage of the characteristic weaknesses of Othello leading to irremediable frustration and despair that act as a stimulus in the murder of Desdemona.Othello is the Moor white custody occupy for their protection and well-being. Othello comes from a different socio-economic background and is employed by the reach and visibly perturbed Duke Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you,/Against the general foe Ottoman.Written at a time when Negroes were being supplied to Virginia, Shakespeares Othellos d interruption glows with noble ancestral memories and critics like Grant White hold that patently a civilized and warlike race could produce an Othello.Othello has a armorial bearing he tail end raise the whites like Cassio to higher ranks, he can head an army, he can order two drunken men to sheath weapons, he can, if required, dismiss them for their offence and he is black and belongs to a lower socio-economic strata and after all race and social status mattered at that time.Hence the union of Othello and Desdemona is presented as the mating of animals, with the Moor as the black get, a practitioner of arts inhibited. A white Prospero can role magic openly and boldly and Shakespeare is apologetic to none but queen mole rat James, while, Othellos wooing and winning of a white woman is equivalent to the practice of black magic.Othello, after all, is an employee of the Duke and hails from a questionable background of a Moor who claims to be well-traveled but is reticent on his redoubtable socio-economic background.Can he in whatever way emulate the social status of Brabantio, whose fille he marries out of love? Brabantio remembers the wealthy curled darlings of his nation and is vehement at the thought of his fair daughter again st the Moors resinous bosom. Othello, the Moor, can hardly be accepted by the Venetian public as his skin is of black hue and he comes from an alien socio-economic status.Othello seemed gratified as he had proved to be the right and exclusively choice in the life of Desdemona. Till then, Othello had never been reminded of the fact that he was a Moor whom Desdemona was supposed to be afraid of. Basically, Othello was not a craven fellow, whose spirits could easily dampen on futile grounds. Othello wished not to doubt Desdemona but he never could brook the presence of any other lover in the life of Desdemona, whom he loved to the back breaker of distraction. He blurted out at one point, Cassio, I love the merely never to a greater extent be officer of mine.Regarding Othello, we come across a myriad points of view. Critics have labeled Othello as a play of informal jealousy a play of motive and temptations ,so on, so forth. But here we see that Othello being unaware of the socio- economic picture of Venice treads the wrong path and gulps the good bait. He ,like a fool, yields to Iagos repeated insinuations. If Desdemona would have been a Moor herself , the disaster hardly would have followed.On the contrary, if Othello were not a Moor, his sense of insecurity and inferiority complex could not get the better of him, on the slightest innervation by Iago. Othello, even in Act III seemed ingenuous , unselfish easily naif and firm in reason ,when he says, .This not to make me jealous/To say my wife is fair, feeds well,/loves company,. Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.Being a Moor, he won the love and undivided upkeep of Desdemona. When Iago crept in between them and strove heart and soul to malign the relationship, Othello lent him credulous ears. Didnt he understand that Iago was keen on creating a rift in their unflinching alliance? Of course, in the subconscious of the protagonist, he do a dent surreptitiously and without Othellos cognizance.Othe llo felt perplexed to find that even his truest and unalloyed love could not keep Desdemona loyal to him Was it simply because he was a Moor? Or, did Desdemona have to lose her life to Othello, just because the Black-and-White conflict caught hold of his mind unawares? We hear Othello recite his shortcomings in a soliloquy in Act III ,Sc iii,lines-263-7 circumstantially for I am black, /And have not those soft parts of colloquy/.Shes gone, I am abused.His distrust lay rooted in himself ,in the society in which he feared himself unaccepted, though his love had to the full been requited, reciprocated. Why did then uncertainty gnaw at his entrails? It was perchance because ,Othello could never forget the acrimonious warning of Brabantio Look to her, Moor, if thou hast look to see/She has deceived her father, and may thee.