A Study on the Mystery of Human Nature in Othello

• Main Authors: Yun Chen, 陳允
• Other Authors: Hsiao-Ching Chow
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25291729719173243400

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 外國語文學系 === 101 === Macbeth, King Lear, Othello and Hamlet are the four great tragedies of Shakespeare. Othello has been much studied in the light of social and cultural consciousness, especially on the topics of race, class and gender. This thesis aims to study Shakespeare’s consciousness of human nature in connection with the issues of class and race, in Othello. Shakespeare sets it alongside an analysis of jealousy in two distinctive but connected ways; through the discussion of the human nature I focus on the metaphors of self and other. I explore the relationships among jealousy, race and gender based on textual analysis.