SHAKESPEARE OTHELLO

Shakespeare has sometimes been our contemporary: In case of Othello

Shakespeare has sometimes been our contemporary: In case of Othello

Introduction

William Shakespeare (Stratford on Avon, UK, 1564-id., 1616) is a British poet and playwright. Three of the eight children of John Shakespeare, a wealthy merchant and local politician and Mary Arden, whose family had suffered religious persecution resulting from their Catholic faith, little or nothing gets known about the childhood and adolescence of William Shakespeare.

It seems likely that study in the Grammar School in his hometown, although it is unknown how many years and in what circumstances. According to a contemporary of his, William Shakespeare learned small Latin and less Greek, and in any case, it seems also likely to leave school early because of the difficulties that his father was going through, whether they derive from their economic or political career.

However, in any case, always been regarded Shakespeare as an educated person, but not to excess, and this has enabled the emergence of theories that have been just the straw man of someone prepared to remain anonymous literature. This has also contributed to the fact that is not available at all writings or personal letters of the author, who seems to only wrote, besides his poetry, works for the stage. Moreover, this work highlights the performance of the play Othello which Shakespeare wrote in his days from the contemporary perspective (Elsom, 1989, 61-92).

Discussion

The paper highlights the Othello play by Shakespeare and see how the play in-contrast of temporary world. However, Shakespeare's "Othello" is a dramatic structure and a perfect masterpiece that still gets performed in the theatres across the globe. It is a thriller, love story and tragedy at the same time, revolving around racial discrimination, prejudice, violence, war and human fallibility. It is a work that involves love, jealousy and the fascination of death are about, in which the main characters as in a network of internally generated entanglements gets trapped. The main objective of this study is that is the symbol of love affect the relationship (Elsom, 1989, 61-92).

Throughout the tragedy of Othello, by William Shakespeare, the audience gets presented with a monstrous victim, and, hence, are unsure if Othello can be granted the status of a tragic hero. In the final scene of Othello, the audience witnesses a jealously blinded Othello murder of his wife and it is only after the act got committed that Othello realises his wrongs, and has a moment of antagonises. The final scene opens with a soliloquy from Othello in which he outlines his thoughts; he intends to kill his wife, but not to “shed her blood”. He sees he did this to take revenge and killed Desdemona to prevent her from betraying more men. Despite this blatant act of murder, Othello cannot be merely seen as a villain here, he states “Oh balmy breath that does almost persuade justice to break her sword”, and this highlights Othello's fatal flaw and his ...