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A 5 page paper which examines the notion of “other” in Shakespeare’s Othello and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. No additional sources cited.
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stories black people are essentially seen as "other" and as such they are, in many ways, the focus of the stories. But, on the other hand the stories do not
necessarily focus on that "other" as the true intention of the plot. Both stories use this "other" but then show that the ultimate moral or theme of the plot transcends
any consideration of "other." The following paper examines this in each story individually and then discusses the two together. "Other" in Shakespeares Othello In Shakespeares play the one
person who seems obsessed with making every other character pay attention to the "otherness" of Othello is Iago. No other character really seems to care that Othello is black or
that he is a Moor until Iago pressures them to see his "otherness." In the beginning Iago tells Desdemonas father: "an old black ram Is topping your white ewe. Arise,
arise; Awake the snorting citizens with the bell, Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you" (Shakespeare I i). In this one can see how Iago is
trying to make Othello seem to be nothing more than "other." But, in reality his pressures involved in trying to make Othello unlikable because of his "otherness" do not seem
to be successful. Iago does seem to make an impact on Roderigo at one point, however, when Roderigo claims imagines Desdemona and "the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor" which
seems to indicate that he believes a Moor is naturally more like an animal perhaps than a man, and thus is clearly "other" (Shakespeare I i). Iago goes further
and tries to stereotype the Moor people, of whom Othello belongs, and claims they "are changeable in their wills" and that once he has had his fill of what he
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