莎士比亞最著名的四大悲劇:《馬克白》、《李爾王》、《奧賽羅》、《哈姆雷特》,是現今社會上擁有廣大學者討論的四本名著。惟當代評論家是在在探討《奧賽羅》的社會現象以及文化意識時,大多數僅針對種族、性別、階級等主題。本文旨在研究莎士比亞《奧賽羅》中人性意識跟階級和種族之間的關聯。研究莎士比亞在《奧賽羅》中把嫉妒與人性的關係來探討。本論文分析《奧賽羅》中自我與他者的隱喻。本研究主要採取文本分析來探討《奧賽羅》中忌妒之關係以探討種族與性別之交互作用。
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.