Blackness is seen on different levels, with Othello being anything from a noble savage to a black devil. The paper considers this and goes on to place in into context of the society in which it was first performed by looking at the 'masque hall'. The bibliography cites 5 sources. A five page paper illustrating the manner in which Shakespeare used the characterization of his protagonist to inevitably unfold the plot. The paper asserts that much as we would like to believe that Othello s life would have been just fine without Iago, in truth it was Othello s terrible personal insecurity, together with a nature more at home in the heat of battle than in the warmth of family, that led him inevitably to his downfall.
Bibliography lists six sources.