betrayal and misconceptions among the characters. This essay will further contemplate how the first oration in a section from Act One, Scene One explains so much about the play “Othello”. In the excerpt in Act One, Scene One, Shakespeare using his master skills presents the ability to craft the whole plot for the readers to understand one of the protagonist’s evil desires.
In this essay I will examine metatheatre within Shakespeare's Othello, focusing on the disintegration of language and the subsequent destruction of self. Conflating the definition of comedy and tragedy, Othello explores the limitations of language and the malleability of knowledge within the confines of theatre and how this undermines the very basis of the play. Throughout the extract, imitation is the catalyst for the play's instability, as the social hierarchy is inverted against a myriad of metatheatrical
conflict necessary for the plot of the play. In Richard Dyer’s (a noted Cultural Studies theorist) essay, (now book) White, he sheds light on the human tendency to associate black with monstrousness and white with pureness. He states, There are inevitable associations of white with light and therefore safety, and black with dark and therefore danger, and that this explains racism (whereas
Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello concerns the issues of racial inequality, but at its core, it also explores society's enforcement of gender roles on women and the way they are treated and act despite being forced into these roles by their male counterparts – they are forced to function in their appropriate gender roles in a society conditioned by war in order to survive. The portrayal of women divided into the categories of virgin and whore, consequently leading the two to be confused with