The Jealousy of Othello and Innocence of Desdemona

Emotional Attraction and Jealousy

Othello is a drama about three of the most angering scenarios of life as a human being, in any period of history.

In the dialogue of conspiring characters bent on securing power via the destruction of others, it is about racism. Yet Shakespeare, in creating the character, has made the very first sympathetic black character in Elizabethan theatre.

It is also about the invasion of privacy via the manipulation of deceitful enemies, especially the violation of those who seek to lead, and use power justly and with honesty. This may strike even the most recent modern audiences as being still relevant today, in a time where anyone and everyone is “famous,” and a public figure by way of their YouTubes and reality television shows - how weak we all are by way of being public figures at least via Facebook, all of us - vulnerable to an anonymous public.