Race is ever where
Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there is always somebody different. The American society focuses on that person, or group of people. They make them feel worthless and treated them like animals. Imagine walking down the street and having people stare at you or call you Names, or talk behind your back. Imagine not knowing the time because nobody will tell you. Why won't they tell you the time, or spare you some change? Because you're black, actually, because you're skin is a different color, or religion. All the characters we have read experience some from of racism none more then Othello. People that are angry or upset say most racist comments in the play. For example, when Emilia found out that Othello had killed Desdemona she was extremely mad and she called Othello a "Blacker devil", this was the only time in the play that she had said anything racist about Othello. The main characters that have racist attitudes are Iago, Brabantio, Roderigo and Emilia, with the hatred of Othello as the basis for their racist actions and comments towards him. Iago is the most racist character in the book as he has it in for Othello right from the start. What sparks off Imago's hate towards him is the fact that when
Roderigo is another one of the racist characters in the play, being so right from the start. He is Imago's accomplice and will do anything that Iago wants him to. I think he does this because of the way Iago can twist a situation to make it sound as if Roderigo would get something good from it but in the end he doesn't. One of the racist names he calls Othello behind his back is "Thick-lips". He hates Othello because he's jealous of him as he also loves Desdemona but cannot have her. I don't think he views Othello in a very bad, racist way but uses the racism against Othello because he's jealous of him. Neither Roderigo nor Iago would say anything racist to Othello's face, as he is the General of the Army. The other character who is racist towards Othello is Emilia, the lady in waiting to Desdemona. Emilia is disgusted with Othello when she finds out that Othello had killed Desdemona this is the time she gets a chance to express her feelings about Othello, "O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!" Although this is the one of the only time she says what she thinks of him, I think that she was racist towards Othello all through the play did not approve of his relationship with Desdemona but just could not show it because she would get in trouble with her "lord". Shakespeare portrayed the union bet
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