A Postcolonialist Analysis of the Tragedy of Othello
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1. Introduction
Different people have different opinions towards the tragedy of Othello. Personally, I am deeply impressed by the racial bias in this tragedy; therefore I try to analyze it from the view of postcolonialism.
As you know, the tragedy of Othello has a close relation with Othello’s blackness identity. In the play, the viperous Iago makes full use of Othello’s special Moor identity, which is different from the dominant society, to enrage Desdemona’s father, Brabantio. Then Iago also finds ways to make Othello himself more and more conscious of his blackness identity which result in his self-humiliation. Consequently, love between Othello and Desdemona is gradually damaged due to Othello’s suspicion and blind trust on Iago. Othello is the victim of cross-cultural power plays to some extent. Or, we can say that the tragedy of Othello can be classified as the paradigm of postcolonialism, and......

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