Cultural Norms In Othello

Every country is like a snowflake: there is no two the same. Every country has its own culture, and they usually have more than one. Cultures also tend to change over time. A culture is the social norms of a particular time period. When most people think about culture, they think about race, but there is more to culture than that. Culture includes how certain social groups are viewed and language. Culture can be looked at through every book and movies. Not just the author’s culture can be represented within a book, but so can previous cultures. In Shakespeare’s play Othello, The Moor, Othello, is casted as an outsider. He is looked down upon because of his color. During Shakespeare’s time, and until around the 1960s, African Americans were looked down upon; not viewed as citizens. Even though the Moor was in the military, he did not have the same level of respect as the other Caucasians soldiers. He had a little more social ranking as other African Americans because he was in the military. He was called hateful names just because of his race. This was the norm in Shakespeare’s time. Othello also had a Caucasian wife (Desdemona). It was not the norm to marry

In Todd’s culture they use a mixture of broken American English, British English, and stereotypical Southern. When Todd meets Viola, he relieves that she seems to speak in a whole new way. They both say the same words, but in different ways. Later on in the book, Viola changes the way she speaks in order to fit in more with Todd. Ross took events from his past in order to portray this. Ross was born in Virginia, USA, but then moved to London for college. Ross had to adapt to the change in the way the people around him spoke. He went from living on the east coast of the US, to the middle of England. Even though both places speak the same words, they have different ways of saying them. The reader also tends to read the words in the language that they are native