Throughout the play Othello, written by William Shakespeare, it is obvious that there is a difference in the way that Othello is treated and looked at by the white society. Racism doesn't come up when it's to the advantage of the white society - it seems that people don't have problems with Othello for leading the Venice army - but racism comes into play in social atmosphere - the society opposes the marriage of Othello and Desdemona.
             Othello,the black protagonist of the play, possesses power in the professional domain, however, in the private and social domain, he is alienated because of his race. It is absurd for Othello to think that he can have a place for himslef in a Venetian society because he will never truly be accepted. It is obvious from the very beginning of the play. Othello is called "Moor" more often than "Othello"; Moor is his identity. The repetition of the "Moor"is Shakespeare's way of showing racism. Roderigo, Iago and Brabantio all find Othello's racial backround, especially since he married a white woman, very undesirable. When Iago is talking to Brabantio with Roderigo about Othello and Desdemona's marriage, he said: "Even now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe." Brabantio - The senator - gets angry when he finds out that his daughter, Desdemona, has been seeing "the moor" behind his back and he makes racist comments about Othello to his face. He accuses him of witchcraft because he couldn't believe that Desdemona would ever "fall in love with what she feared to look on," and he suggests that Othello's race makes him capable of these powers of "black" magic.
             In Othello, the language and action used by each character when they interact with others, creates power relationships that can both empower characters, and also constrain characters that don't conform to the expectations.The driving force of the language that Shakespeare used in Othello is conflict and opposites. The contrasts between ...