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A 10 page paper which examines the friendship between Shakespeare’s tragic protagonist and antagonist within the context of Nietzsche’s description of a ‘free spirit’ in his philosophical text, “Beyond Good and Evil.” Also considered are Othello’s Moorish ethnicity, and how his jealous and insecure nature is responsible for the deaths of Desdemona and himself. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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his text Beyond Good and Evil, first published in 1886, German modernist philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) suggests this is far too simplistic a definition. According to Nietzsche, morality is
little more than a deceptive smokescreen that is designed to achieve conformity. While this admits into society most people, there are the isolated few on the perimeter that are
forced to exist despite the exclusion, which according to Nietzsche, usually has something to do with some type of prejudice usually concerning rank or status. Nietzsche believed there were
two types, those who were simply spirits that accepted the "falseness of the world" and were easily deceived by the many appearances posing as reality. It was the free
spirit, however, that deviated from this norm. Nietzsche defined them as independent spirits that do not wish to unite with convention; they prefer being isolated from others so they
can manipulate situations for their own maximum benefit. He observed, "We find proof after proof, which... lure us into surmising a deceptive principle in the nature of things.
He, however, who makes thinking itself, and consequently the spirit, responsible for the falseness of the world... he who regards this world as falsely inferred, would have good reason in
the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished acceptance would be forced to don some type of mask while the free spirit did not
wish to align himself with anything or anyone. This was, in Nietzsches view, true liberation, for it is the free spirits that "always free us from some rule, and
its prejudice" (Nietzsche 826). Iago, the protagonist of William Shakespeares tragic play, Othello, represented the free spirit as envisioned by Friedrich Nietzsche. It becomes apparent in the first act
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