... still, and perhaps always will be, evident) than an audience in the early 19th century. However, such was the reaction of the audience viewing the play even some two hundred years after the Shakespearean context (in the early 1600's). The soldier on guard duty obviously still had social and racial prejudices against Othello the character, indicated by his assertion that a "Negro- must not be allowed ... her as a reward rather than a person dehumanizes her, and classes her as a form of property that Othello owns. Thus we can also analyze Othello in a feminist point of view. The study of fe...

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