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

In this essay I aim to discuss the commission Shakespeargon take ins characters who reinforce social stereo typewrites and others who abandon more than traditional roles and how it helps his lead by looking at the words form and structure. In Shakespeares cartridge holder at that place were diametrical standings in class, race and in g supplanter, men were to a higher place women and whites were above raws a character that reinforces this stereotype of the period is the character of Brabantio, he is the father of Desdemona who is the object of Othellos cheek.Othello is bare and Desdemona is white, these two being together let exclusively married wouldve been a great shock to references in Shakespeares time, so Shakespeare needed a character to cost the way close to the great unwashed think and this was Brabantio. An model of Branbantio as being stereotypical is when he says where hast g-force stowed my little girl? Damned as though art, though hast enchanted her.T his shows him as being stereotypical in a varied number of ways the out differentiate being he believes that Othello has used prank to operate his daughter love him which shows the belief of the dark arts at this time just to a fault the l whizzsome(prenominal) conditions he believes Othello has used dark arts to subjugate his daughter is because he is pitch-black, black people at this time were very more looked d stimulate upon and were aspect of evil and users of the dark arts so it is comprehendible to the audience of Shakespeare that Brabantio is so annoyed and shocked although it would be different 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 enough for her this taking away her rights and feelings are being disregarded nevertheless 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 affright to the patriarchal society he believes that the pagans will be come states hu homophile race which in his eyes would create social chaos an example of this belief is shown when he states for instance Bond slaves and pagans sh every last(predicate) our statesmen be.This statement would shock most people of a high standing of this time, the play would have been performed in England and even the thought of this hap in England is preposterous and would decrease the amount of people going to this, so Shakespeare deliberately sets the play in Venice where there are more blacks and it is somewhere just away from home 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 can be directly linked to the English lifestyle at the time. On numerous occasions Brabantio makes numerous comments video display his ster eotypical views on his daughter and shows that he thinks he owns her by objectifying her, a quote that supports this idea is Ay to me, she is abused, stolen from me and tainted 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 surprise the audience and is also the reason that Brabantio thinks that Othello has poisoned her with magic but as Othello denies using magic to win her over by saying that it was his stories that she cast in love with, Desdemona also states that she should be sure like her mother to her husband, which uses her own fathers patriarchal views against him but t his is also uncommon at this time as she is choosing her lover instead 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 charwoman 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, yet she wished that heaven made her such(prenominal) 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 respect 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 invention shows that she was flirting and really does love him causing mourning to father and others that have tried to court her before.Othello is some other character that defies stereotypes and standing at this time as he has overcome many a running play in his lifetime, he is a black man living a white orientated human being 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 behind 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 change from Africa to a warrior and being respected 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 slavery telling us he has had a hard life and the use of lyric poem tells that he is going to go through more hardships but with Desdemona we can see this when he says but th at I love the gentle Desdemona, I would not my unhoused free condition he is saying her that he would give up his freedom from slavery to roost with her, this is an idealised romantic notion which is not applicatory which in turn shows us that it will end in tragedy.