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Othello

Othello

Shakespeare was a brilliant man capable of tying in social critique in the slightest of ways that one could only see if one looked very closely. Take for example Shakespeare's play of words using black and white in the Othello. These two words become so loaded with meanings that scholars today are still discovering new ways that the two words can be interpreted. "The Rhetoric of Black and White in Othello" by Doris Alder is ten pages delving deep into the brain of Shakespeare and the things that were going through his head as he wrote Othello. She uncovers the many meanings that black and white carried. Almost always, black was a way to emphasize how something could be dirty and impure, physically, morally, or anything of the sort. Something white on the other hand was young, innocent, and pure. These surface interpretations are good evidence to support the true meaning that Shakespeare was trying to get across. Part of this deeper meaning has to do with how black can......


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