William Shakespeare's "Othello," illustrates the Venetian society's gender and class hierarchies in seventeenth century renaissance Italy. The manipulation 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 ... society, reveals how women become the centre of suspicion and the object of not only male desire, but male obsession with the threat of adultery. The analysis of wome...

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