Othello Racial Bias Analysis

Racism showed in many different forms during Griffin social experiment. There was the hate stare, which Griffin described as, “You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light (52).” Another form was that blacks were denied the same basic privileges as whites, which Griffin encountered multiple times on his journey. Blacks were denied: jobs (38, 99 – 101), goods and services (49), and bathrooms (60 – 62, 85 – 86). And another form of racism is ignorance.

Oscar Wilde wrote his plays against the backdrop of the Victorian English society. It therefore helps to discuss the salient aspects of the Victorian society. Victorian England is known for many paradoxes -- glaring contrasts between the rich and the poor, insistence on morality on the one hand and the practice of cynicism on the other, blooming creativity pitted against blatant constriction, imperial grandeur since Britain was then ruling almost one fifth of the total surface of the earth and domestic squalor since the majority of people did not have decent means of livelihood, and finally collectivity dictated by tradition opposed to the rapidly developing individualism. The class system denied the talented members of the lower classes access to social and economic advancement. The upper classes alone had the privilege of working in the government, the armed forces, and the church, while trade was monopolized by the rising middle class.

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, in Maycomb County, there are unfair events that happen to people because of wrong things that others believe in. Since people in Maycomb County believe in those preconceived ideas, some of the characters like Walter Cunningham, the negroes, and Scout don’t get equal rights. Even if it’s the early 1930s, inequality still exists to this day: social, gender, and race/color. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, readers can see that prejudice and bias creates inequality. One reason why inequality is a central problem in To Kill A Mockingbird is where you stand in the economy.

Depression and sadness affect some people harder than others, and how it affects them determines what they will do with their lives from that point on. Michael Bristol, in his article, “The Customary and the Ethical: Understanding Hamlet’s Bad Habit’s,” claims that Hamlet’s suit of solemn black is anything but customary in the Danish court. He adds that it “is a bad habit that is ostentatious, confrontational, and slovenly” (Bristol 70). Bristol notes that the word custom often refers to something idiosyncratic in the play and says that Hamlet has forgone all custom of exercise when he reprimands his mother cruelly for her enjoyment of his uncle’s embraces. In Michael Bristol’s, “The Customary and the Ethical: Understanding Hamlet’s Bad Habits,” Hamlet’s attire is seen as not customary in the Danish court; however, this argument obscures the reality of mourning loss and depression.

In William Shakespeare’s “Othello” (1603) and Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus” (1980), both the main protagonists and antagonists, Othello and Iago in “Othello” and Mozart and Salieri in “Amadeus”, of their respective texts are portrayed as outsiders. Othello is alienated because of his race, Iago doesn’t allow himself to tell the truth to anybody, Mozart is looked down on for his arrogance and Salieri feels as if God is punishing him. The common theme between the two texts, as well as outsiders, is jealousy, this is the main cause that influences the antagonists to manipulate the protagonists. The main areas where the characters are considered to be outsiders are with their family, nationality, religion, class division, personality and their work positions. The isolation that each of the characters experience from the rest of

These two villains slander Othello to the point of eradicating any pity the audience could have developed towards Othello. The Venetians also have a hidden fascination for Othello and his foreign qualities but, they mask feelings with negative slurs. The audience also affected by the portrayal of Othello, and are persuaded to feel pity for him because of his circumstances; being betrayed by his ensign and being looked down upon because of his Moorish descent. Shakespeare also uses racism as a creative apparatus to generate a metaphor between Desdemona and Othello.

One form of power is discrimination power, Iago expresses this to Othello, announcing that he is a worthless animal “an old black ram” (1:1), racial slues are used as Iago’s emotions towards Othello are jealousy, envy and the desire for his power this is to show the hatred Iago has for Othello. As we know Iago is an impolite and manipulative character throughout the play he admits that he is dishonest “I will wear my heart upon his sleeve” (1:1). This is a metaphor as Iago will never be his true self and show his true emotions. Political power is used a lot in Othello in many different contexts. After a drunk night out with Roderigo, Cassio finds himself regretting his last night decisions “Oh, I have lost my reputation!”

Overall the igbo culture is based off nature and is all they have ever known, so when this new culture tries to take over it causes a lot of conflict . The few similarities and multiple differences between these two cultures makes it clear that the igbo and the white missionaries do not have the same point of view. When you have a situation like this conflict is bound to arise, religion causes many wars and just like in Things fall apart differing perspectives on culture and religion are causing

Of all the social issues of his time, racism is what most disgusted Tennessee Williams. Being himself part of a minority, he understood very well the stigma and the prejudices of the society. Displeased that "The Glass Menagerie" played in front of an all-white public, has imposed on himself that "any future contract I make will contain a clause to keep the show out of Washington while this undemocratic practice

The Shakespearen play ‘Hamlet: Prince of Denmark’ evokes the ideas of what it means to be human through a chain of corruption and mortality. Shakespeare uses the genre of Revenge Tragedy in Hamlet to convey the human condition through Hamlets acceptance of mortality and fate and Corruption in The notion of Moral Corruption through Self interest and Political corruption in regards to the use of powers for illegitimate private gain and the Great Chain of being. The fate of the people in Hamlets time can be reflected of the values, For example Hamlets fate is to kill Claudius because of moral code of honour for the time.

The deep divide between those of different ethnicities root back to slavery days. Racism is contagious like a flea in the Bubonic plague, an ideology that is nothing more than hate and ignorance. A problem with battling such animosity today is that racism isn’t so blatantly obvious as it once was. It seems as if the only ones that recognize this evil are the ones that allow themselves to see it. We as a people need to recognize our own bigoted views that we have been conditioned to assume are reality.

In my experience, legal immigrant workers work harder and are more productive than native born U.S. citizens when it comes to physical labor. If a U.S.-born citizen gets beat out for a job because they were not as motivated to work as the immigrant that was hired, then I consider it to be the unmotivated worker’s fault that they are unemployed not the immigrants fault. However, I agree that immigration “employment-based visas” should be issued according to “labor market conditions” (Kallick). Furthermore, I disagree with many of the government’s legislative attempts to “defer the deportations” of illegal immigrants (Nakamura). The reasons I disagree with these attempts are all monetary based.

As we look around, we can see different races interacting with each other. It builds an illusion in our heads that racism is non-existing. According to Coates, the author of the article “ This Town Needs A Better Class Of Racism” implied that “Elegant racism is invisible, supple, and enduring. It disguises itself in the national vocabulary, avoids epithets and didacticism.” Coates explains that racism is still alive today, but it’s just not as visible as it was before.

Another very common form of racism that may not seem so obvious is racial stereotyping. Although it is sometimes funny or clever, it is offensive in many ways as you are generalizing one race and saying everyone of that particular race is the same. The Church teaches that racism is strictly a sin and there is no going around that fact. The U.S. Bishops wrote in Brothers and Sisters To Us, “Racism is a sin; a sin that divides the human family, blots out the image of God among specific members of that family, and violates the fundamental human dignity of those called to be children of the same Father.” Inferiorizing another race in any way directly disobeyes Jesus’ Golden Rule: Treat others the way you want to be treated.