Exploring Racism in Literature Through Othello and Candide

Exploring Racism in Literature Through Othello and Candide

The renaissance period was such as development movement in the art, architecture, writing and many other fields. But also it has many social conflicts due to that there were different ethnical groups in the society which lead to raise the concept of “self” and “other” as a result of racial treatment of people who are not belonging to the culture and society. However, there were specific kinds of people who were suffering from racism like black-skinned people, women, slaves and Jews which this concept is very clear in some literary works that have been written at that time and I will choose to discuss two works from them, William…