“My lord is not my lord, nor should I know him were he in favor as in humor altered”
(3, 4, 119-120)
Throughout Shakespeare’s play ‘Othello’ we observe Othello’s identity and reputation fall to pieces, the way Othello sees himself and the way others perceive him is transformed completely. His qualities of a decisive, dignified and proud man at the beginning of the play are later overtaken by jealousy, rage and irrational thinking. His life and himself as he knows it is destroyed by love and jealousy, the most dangerous weapons known to mankind.
Before we even meet Othello we know of him because of the opening conversation between Iago and Roderigo. They speak of their hate for Othello and portray him as a dishonest and lower class man. They often refer to him being Black with quotes such as “Old black ram” (1, 1, 90). They make it clear in these first few pages that they look down on Othello because of his skin colour.
When we are first introduced to the......

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Title: Othello-Identty
Approximate Word Count: 1606
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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