Othello and Iago are Murderers

... Othello and Iago are Murderers. In Act 5 scene 1 and 2 how does Shakespeare invoke pity and sympathy for Othello. In Othello Act 5 scenes 1 and 2 Shakespeare invokes pity and sympathy for Othello in a number of ways. He uses the character of Desdemona, an innocent young woman who loves and cares for Othello. She was set up for committing adultery by the devious, conniving character known as Iago. I feel that black audiences would feel extreme pity and sympathy for Othello as back then black people were thought of as the minority race, they would be inspired by Othello's rise to the top, being respected and daring to love a white woman, these qualities's in a black man back then were not known of. In my opinion Shakespeare saw the prejudice and racism towards black people in those days and wrote Othello as an attempt to challenge

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