1. Themes of Jealousy in Othello
... of stereotypical ideas of race and gender is the foundational basis of the tragedy, exposing the manner in which women are the embodiment of "purity " of the race and mere vehicles of social mobility. The theme of transgression, at both sexual and social levels, forms the basis ... their own. " [1.3.97] The man looks at the woman as a possession and this objectification strips her of having any agency. The preoccupation with purity creates two extremities of the Angel and the whore, leaving no middle space which the woman could occupy. Desdemona's double transgression, of racial and ... ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate