1.1 Venice, a street in front of Senator Brabantio's house. Iago tells about Desdemona's elopement with Othello. Iago talks about his hatred for Othello. Iago tells Roderigo to wake up Brabantio. They tell brabantio that his daughter has eloped with Othello and he asks Rodrigo to lead him to her.
Othello was written in 1602 by William Shakespeare, and is set in the late 16th century at the time of the wars between Venice and Turkey. The play tells the tragic story of Othello, a black military general, as he attempts to build a life with his white Venetian wife, Desdemona, despite their racial difference. In the opening scene of Othello, readers are led to believe that the play will be inherently racist, as Iago and Roderigo use disparaging racist terms to describe Othello, referring to him as “thick lips” or other discriminatory monikers. With such an opening, one would be poised to read a text infused with the conventional racist ideologies of Shakespeare’s time. However, as the play progresses and Othello’s character is developed, it becomes clear that this is not a racist work, but rather the story of an honourable tragic hero who falls victim to the evil and conniving ways of a heinous villain.
In The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Shylock inhabits an anti-Semitic society in which he is treated as an inferior and without any esteem. In a response to these social dynamics, Shylock attempts to make an unmerciful statement to the Venetian community. During the trial, when pleaded multiple times by the Antonio and his men, he doesn’t take mercy on Antonio and demands for his bond to be followed and for Antonio to sacrifice a pound of his flesh. Declaring justice as a reason to the jury and to the judge, Shylock prepares to take revenge on Antonio by killing him. Shylock’s actions reveal a lot about his ethical beliefs: that he would go as far as to kill a man in order to get revenge.
SHYLOCK IS A VILLIAN In the play “The Merchant of Venice” by Shakespeare, Shylock is portrayed along the lines of being both a victim and a villain. Shylock is out for one pound of Antonio’s flesh which will end Shylock’s lust and hate towards him. But he also gets called cruel names and is pushed around and spit on in the public by Christians including Antonio and all of Antonio’s friends. And further on into the play Shylock is betrayed by his own daughter who stole from her father and became a Christian. But as victimised as Shylock is, he is also out for revenge on all Christians and is willing to kill to get what he thinks everyone deserves.
He shows that as long as his wife is rich, he will be happy. He is showing that nothing means more to him than money, which interprets that he is degrading and sexist in the way in which he acts towards women. Shortly after, Petruchio follows this up with debatably the most sexist comment throughout the whole play. After revealing to Hortensio that his only want of gain in Padua is money, he tells him he fully intends to make Katherina his own. In lines 94 and 95 this is made absolutely evident.
The goddess Athena was the main patron of Odysseus and she was a rival to Poseidon, by beating him in the patron deity of Athens. He was supremely mad at Odysseus for blinding his son Polyphemus the Cyclops Odysseus and his men blinded and stole food from. Poseidon is God of the sea, offending him caused numerous delays in Odysseus’ sea voyage home. King Aeolus God of the winds welcomed Odysseus kindly on his island. Offered his winds to help Odysseus and his men get home briefly.
This is a battle he has with temptation. Then both Odysseus and the Cyclops are monstrous. When Odysseus blinds him it certainly isn’t a fair fight, however, Polyphemus had just eaten two of his men which was monstrous. The next book depicts Aeolus giving Odysseus the proper winds to get home; they are kept in a bag. However, his shipmates think the wind god has secretly given him gold and silver.
He was known as the “Black Menace” and was born in Galveston, Texas. Johnson was America’s first black Heavyweight champion. People often saw his job not only as a boxer but pissing off white people. He was very well-rounded boxer that loved fast cars, fancy suits, and white women. After the fight against Tommy Burns that gave him his title as the heavyweight champion, he became a hero to the blacks suffering under slavery.
In the tragic play, Othello, William Shakespeare uses foils to explores how jealousy, manipulation, and pride lead to suffering. Though he is a racial and cultural outsider of Venice being of Moorish decent, Othello has gained the respect of many by following the faith of Christianity, being the general of the Venetian Military, and expressing his true love for Desdemona; the beautiful daughter of the admired senator, Brabantio. However on the wedding night of Othello and Desdemona, there is a disturbance in the airs of good intentions; it is Iago, the pathological lying, deceiving, racist, sexist, thieving, murderous antagonist in the play that destroys the lives of many for his oath of revenge against Othello. He has been passed over as
He published his second novel No Longer at Ease in 1960 and Arrow of God in 1964.His other main work includes A Man of the People (1966), Morning yet on Creation Day, Beware Soul Brother and Girls at War. Black Skin White Masks I am talking of millions of men who have been skilfully injected with fear, inferiority complexes, trepidation, servility, despair, abasement (Aime Cesaire, Discourssur le Colonialisme) Black Skin White Masks is one of the major works which immortalized Frantz Fanon among the post colonialist theoreticians. With the exploration of the psychology of dehumanization, dependency and de masculinisation of