Racism In Othello Essay

The academic recourse I have chosen, titled Racism in Othello, starts out to by talking about how race has been a problem throughout history. About how your race can affect you depending on what race you are and where you happen to be. It then continues on and explains how Othello is a story that heavily grasps this subject. The writer of this academic paper even goes into great detail so as to prove his point. This resource would be very useful to my paper because it goes into great detail about how racism is present in the story of Othello and it does not stop there. It gives the ‘so what?’ The ‘so what?’ of the racism present is that it affects the main character of the story heavily, thus giving it a story.

The second academic resource I have chosen, titled ‘Proper’ Men and ‘Fallen’ Women; The Unprotectedness of Wives in ‘Othello’, starts out by stating that many Elizabethan and Jacobean plays that are considered tragedies have become known as “domestic tragedies. There is then a more indepth examination and explanation of of both Othello and The Winter’s Tale. The examination and explanation of Othello goes far more indepth than The Winter’s Tale. The paper makes a good argument, backed by a great deal of textual evidence,

The writer states that the readers of this story are able to connect more with Emilia after the death of Desdemona because she is able to express all the feelings the readers may be feeling at the time. The writer goes on to make a compelling argument that by what she does in the end makes her a type of heroine. While I do like the overall theme and argument of this paper, I will not be using it. The reason for this is that is does not go with the theme of my own paper I plan to