In Othello, Shakespeare creates characters who reinforce social stereotypes and others who abandon more traditional roles

In this essay I aim to establish the focus Shakespeare creates characters who reinforce social stereotypes and others who abandon more(prenominal) traditional roles and how it helps his take to the woods by looking at the language form and structure. In Shakespeares clipping there were contrasting standings in class, race and in gender, men were to a higher place women and whites were above shadowys a character that reinforces this stereotype of the fourth dimension is the character of Brabantio, he is the father of Desdemona who is the object of Othellos heart.Othello is black and Desdemona is white, these two being together permit alone married wouldve been a great reversal to audiences in Shakespeares time, so Shakespeare needed a character to represent the way most people think and this was Brabantio. An example of Branbantio as being stereotypic is when he says where hast thou stowed my little girl? Damned as though art, though hast enchanted her.This shows him a s being stereo typic in a varied number of shipway the first being he believes that Othello has physical exercised magic to make his daughter screw him which shows the belief of the dark arts at this time save also the only reasons he believes Othello has used dark arts to enslave his daughter is because he is black, black people at this time were very much looked d protest upon and were thought of evil and users of the dark arts so it is understandable to the audience of Shakespeare that Brabantio is so annoyed and shocked although it would be diametrical now.Another way he shows thast he is stereotypical is by the way he thinks he knows that his daughter could not love a black person and should only love the people he sees good bounteous for her this taking away her rights and feelings are being disregarded save at this time it was normal for the women to be objectified and men control them. Brabantio also shows the stereotypical view of a patriarch in this society and he believes that Othello is a direct threat to the patriarchal society he believes that the pagans leave behind be come statesman which in his eyes would create social bedlam an example of this belief is shown when he states for instance Bond slaves and pagans sh in all our statesmen be.This statement would shock most people of a high standing of this time, the tactical maneuver would provoke been performed in England and even the thought of this happening in England is preposterous and would step-down the amount of people going to this, so Shakespeare deliberately sets the play in Venice where there are more blacks and it is somewhere fair away from basis so it is believable to the audience but other than the fact that it tells you this play is set in Venice, nearly all of the characters kitty be straight linked to the English lifestyle at the time. On numerous do Brabantio makes numerous comments showing his stereotypical views on his daughter and shows that he thinks he own s her by objectifying her, a quote that supports this idea is Ay to me, she is abused, stolen from me and corrupted when he says this you can see he sees his daughter as his own and only thinks she should do what he thinks she should.A character that is not stereotypical and abandons their own typical role in this play is Desdemona she does this by disobeying her father and society by marrying a black man who is seen as a peasant in her fathers eyes, the time this play was shown daughters and women alike were controlled by men, so the disobedience of Desdemona would awe the audience and is also the reason that Brabantio thinks that Othello has poisoned her with magic but as Othello denies use magic to win her over by saying that it was his stories that she fell in love with, Desdemona also states that she should be loyal like her mother to her husband, which uses her own fathers patriarchal views against him but this is also uncommon at this time as she is choosing her lover inste ad of her father causing much anger as she is not dropping in line like a girl should in this time.Furthermore Desdemona is not a typical woman of the time that should be quiet love there husband and obey their father, Desdemona has different ideas of what she wants and Othello believes that she fell in love with him because of his stories and that she wants to become a great warrior and all he represented, a quote that shows this is when Othello tells us She wished she had not heard it, up to now she wished that heaven made her such a man this suggests that Desdemona does not love Othello for his heart but for what he represents to her, a black man who should be looked down and despised upon becoming a great warrior and even gaining the regard as of her father, she had never met anyone of this type before and she became hooked but the fact that she told Othello If I had that loved her. I should teach him how to tell my story shows that she was flirting and rightfully does love him causing distress to father and others that have tried to move her before.Othello is another character that defies stereotypes and standing at this time as he has overcome many a trial in his lifetime, he is a black man living a white orientated world and to get to his standing and stature as one of the heads of the Venetian armys as the Venetian empire at this time had much power cornerstone it with strongholds as Venice and Verona his shows how much of a struggle it was to get there and makes it more surprising, from being a slave sold from Africa to a warrior and being reckon for his talent and not prejudged due to his skin colour. In his speech he tells us that he has been through many a hardships of war and slaveholding telling us he has had a hard life and the use of language tells that he is going to go through more hardships but with Desdemona we can see this when he says but that I love the dingy Desdemona, I would not my unhoused free condition he is saying her tha t he would give up his freedom from slavery to stay with her, this is an idealised romantic notion which is not practical which in turn shows us that it will end in tragedy.