This work tells the story of Othello as a brave general in Venice. He fell in love with his eldest daughter Desdemona. Because of the age gap, marriage is not allowed. The two had to get married in private. Othello has a sinister flag bearer Iago who is determined to get rid of Othello. At first, he told the old man, only to find that they were married. He also denounced Othello and Desdemona, saying that another lieutenant Cassio had an unusual relationship with Desdemona and forged the so-called love oath. Othello believed it and strangled his wife in a rage. When he learned the truth, he drew his sword and fell beside Desdemona.
abstract
Othello, a black-faced moor, was a general employed by the city-state of Venice. He is modest because of his race. He fell in love with Desdemona, the daughter of Baron Borobanshaw. She is smart, beautiful and generous. Knowing that marriage was not allowed, they got married secretly without telling their parents. Othello, as commander-in-chief, has Iago, the flag bearer who looks brave. He was jealous of Othello's promotion of Cachao to lieutenant, but he didn't notice himself. At the same time, he coveted Desdemona's beauty, so he envied Othello's success in getting a wife. Iago, an honest and cunning villain, tried his best to create false images and evidence to prove that Othello mistakenly thought that Cachao was having an affair with his wife Desdemona, so that Othello, who was confused by jealousy caused by Iago's slander, could see it. Destroying the happy marriage between Othello and Desdemona became Iago's greatest satisfaction. So he tried every means to take advantage of the urgency of Rodrigo, a little aristocrat. He is obsessed with Desdemona, but his wife Amelia knows nothing about it. The evidence of Desdemona's infidelity is true. He let the poison of "doubt" burn in his heart like sulfur, filling, fermenting and expanding the fault zone between the "indirect evidence" provided by Egu and his own connection. Finally, jealousy almost drove him crazy. In his newly married bed, he strangled his loyal and simple wife Desdemona. But when Iago's wife exposed the lies and deception, Othello woke up like a dream and drew his sword to commit suicide.
Othello (one of Shakespeare's four tragedies)
Shakespeare played Othello perfectly from beginning to end. The delicate depiction of Othello profoundly shows the struggle between two opposing emotions in Othello. The protagonist's different emotions appear alternately in the dominant position, which is the most attractive place of the play. -From the tenderest love and the greatest trust to the tormenting jealousy and crazy hatred. Othello's heart will never leave once it is occupied by revenge, and it will become stronger and stronger in the process of delaying implementation.
He used to be the happiest lover, but after he killed Desdemona, he became the most miserable and evil villain. Facing the innocent Desdemona, his fear of life overcame his fear of death. Mental pain has long made him forget the existence of the body. Only photographing the body is the best way to solve mental pain.
Desdemona
Desdemona's love for the outlaw is based on his experience of worshipping the outlaw and his pain. His love, which combines worship and sympathy, is a kind of love that combines lover and mother. Desdemona is the embodiment of his perfect goddess. Her admiration made him complacent, her beauty intoxicated him, and he pinned everything on Desdemona. Attitude towards love: Love is frank, clear and confident. She is sure that the person she loves will get the same return. Love is conceited, love is arrogant, and his love cannot be mixed with even a little impurity. Changes in love: consistent, faithful, never doubt otero, frank and open. Love is absolutely painful, and betrayal is not allowed. The end of love: death for no reason; Suicide. As can be seen from the above table, Desdemona and outlaw have different views on love. It can be said that from the beginning, the love between outlaw and Desdemona danced on the cliff. If you are not careful, you will roll in the abyss. Desdemona thinks that her love is firm, and the person he loves is the same as her. Sadly, after being suspected and at a loss, she did not see the change of the outlaw.
Theme of the work
racial discrimination
This is a work with many themes, including love and jealousy, credulity and betrayal, and intermarriage. Racial discrimination is one of the causes of Othello's tragedy. His natural loss is closely related to racial discrimination. Due to secular racial discrimination and personal intrigue, Othello doubts whether he can really win the love of white girls, which is feared by moors and ordinary people, and gradually loses confidence. From believing Desdemona's loyalty to doubting Desdemona's chastity and love motive, he finally completely denied Desdemona's fierce love, thought Desdemona was a prostitute in every way, and then killed her, causing Desdemona and his own tragedy.
Shakespeare successfully revealed some characteristics of his time by describing the whole failure process of assimilating Othello, a foreign figure. Othello's "discovery", every time Desdemona's misconduct was tampered with in advance by the cunning Iago, finally led to a sudden tragedy, in which he strangled his beloved wife without being understood. It also makes the binary opposition between husband and wife, father and daughter, father-in-law and son-in-law, love and hate, honesty and betrayal, white Christians and colored foreigners, mainstream culture and marginal culture, assimilation and alienation have a deeper and more complicated meaning, thus forming a deeper tragic color in the works and enhancing the social criticism of the works.
In fact, it is a continuation of political description. On the surface, it depicts a strange love story between a Venetian aristocratic woman who is out of tune with the world and the son of an African Moorish tribal leader. In fact, Shakespeare's description of the characters in the play, especially the heroine's cross-border behavior and words in the text context of foreigners invading Venice city-state, has gone beyond the boundaries of love stories, showing the struggle between African-American marginal culture represented by Othello and European mainstream culture represented by Desdemona, and further showing the struggle between the lower class and the upper class at that time.
colonialism
Although the hero of Othello is loyal to the Duke of Venice, he is still a Moor and a black convert to Christianity. It is this deliberate writing of identity contradiction that makes the whole play full of colonial narrative. Critics believe that Shakespeare's Othello is based on the novel Othello by Italian writer Ciccio. However, Shakespeare made a major adaptation of the original work. The most significant adaptation is that in Chincio's novel, the hero is a savage Moor who kills Desdemona with a stocking full of sand and tries to escape the crime in disguise. Othello strangled Desdemona with his bare hands in Shakespeare's plays, which eventually led to his own death. This rewriting of "humanitarianism" obviously reduces the wildness of the characters in the play and embodies "hidden Orientalism", that is, the political orientation and power consciousness are expressed as a "deep structure", which should always exist in the discourse. "In addition, from the perspective of the cultural context of the Renaissance, this is also a reasonable rewriting.
The protagonist is not Othello, a black general, but Igor, a white flag officer. Just to give the protagonist a reference. In Othello's sharpest expression of ignorance, self-wisdom and wit are fully reflected. Said believes that this is the main way for the West to establish hegemony over the East, that is, "inferring that the East is inferior to the West and actively alienating itself-". Of course, it even partially constructs the self-image of the West as a civilization. Orientalism depicts the East as a silent, lewd, feminine, autocratic and irritable image. On the contrary, the West is portrayed as masculine, democratic, rational, moral, energetic and open-minded.
Artistic feature
Character image
It shows a series of vivid characters, such as Othello the Moor, Desdemona the nobleman, Iago the lover, Cassio the kind and Lodovico the understanding. They are as bright as the clothes of different colors worn by people in the photos. They have different personalities. Even if you don't imagine their actions and emotions, their appearance can still be displayed to readers.