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Othello, Racism, And Despair, By Patrick C. Hogan

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In “Othello, Racism, and Despair”( 2008), Patrick C. Hogan claims that Racism motivates Othello to murder Desdemona, a female character in the play, and to commit suicide. Its different forms and masks include enmity, disdain, friendship, admiration, and love. Hogan shows The main character's and Desdemona constant racism towards Othello's because of his race and constant derogatory names like the Moor help Iago convince Othello that somebody like Desdemona whose white can't naturally love somebody like Othello whose black and soon she will snap back to her natural taste in Italian men one day.

Hogan expands on the harsh racism in Othello and devastating effects of racism and racial despair. He does this by stating that if we were to imagine
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