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This paper presents a sociological and psychological analysis of William Shakespeare’s Othello, compares the two, and determines which offers the most important revelatory insights about the protagonist in five pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.
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world, a quiet and peaceful individual who has established his reputation as a military commander, a worldly middle-aged man who is married to a much younger and innocent woman, Desdemona.
For more than four centuries, critics and scholars alike have analyzed Othello from psychological and sociological perspectives in order to analyze why a seemingly confident, successful, and happily married
general could succumb so completely to another individual and murder his bride with his bare hands. An assessment of each analytical approach would therefore be helpful in determining which
best explains why Othello went over the edge and committed an unspeakable act, after which he knew there would be no turning back. When Othello is examined from a psychological
point of view, jealousy and betrayal are typically the primary focal points. Auden scholar Arthur Kirsch opines that Othellos downfall is attributed to the fact that "he fails to
love his own body, to love himself, and it is this despairing self-hatred that spawns the enormous savagery, degradation, and destructiveness of his jealousy" (Nordlund 146). Karen Newman, a
New Historicist philosopher agrees, and adds that Othello falls victim to "complicitous self-loathing" because his race is offensive to him (Nordlund 146). But outwardly, he projects himself as a
man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my title, and my perfect soul Shall manifest me rightly" (I.ii.34-35). When interacting with Venices
elite, Othello proudly proclaims, "My services, which I have done the signiory, Shall out-tongue his complaints. Tis yet to know- Which, when I know that boasting is an honor, I
shall promulgate- I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege, and my demerits May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune As this that I have reachd"
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