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It is much more likely that Othello's and Desdemona's marriage would be accepted, today.
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Romeo and Juliet. Are they rebellious in the modern sense?
No, I wouldn't say they were. Juliet did defy her father by her marriage to Romeo, but that wasn't rebellious as we know it today. It was normal for young women to have arranged marriages to older men, but if there hadn't been a feud with Romeo's family her father may had consented to a marriage.
What are some of the racist insults to Othello in the play?
No. It's difficult to see how a story of passion and politics, love and betrayal can have a racial connotation. Do you ask this question because the main character is black? It's necessary to understand that in Shakespeare's time racial divisions were not as we see them today. Another answer: I would hold that the play is oddly both racist and accepting of racial differences. It does contain some of what I would call racist remarks, such as when Iago tells Brabantio that "even now, very now, an old black ram [Othello] is topping your white ewe [Desdemona]." Such passages would seem to refute critics who say that the play treats Othello's race as ambiguous, i.e., perhaps only swarthy as a Moorish North African -- ethnically Arab or Berber -- might be expected to look. It seems to me more likely that Shakespeare and his audience were prone to confuse Africans' physical features and races and treat "Moor" as synonymous with black Africans, as reflected in the term "blackamoor." On the other hand, I think there may be some attestation for their use of "black" to mean simply anyone who wasn't blond. Even so, aside from a general tendency by other characters to treat Othello as "other," referring to him usually simply as "the Moor," he is accepted as an equal, even respected for his military rank. So much so that apart from Iago's ribald jesting, no one seems to think his being married to Desdemona in any way remarkable. So it seems to me that Elizabethans, for all their racial and class distinctions, hadn't yet come to abhor miscegenation. I suspect this is because segregation in its full force became ingrained in the Western mind only as a symptom and enablement of the swelling tide of enslavement of Africans after the time Othello was written around 1600.
Why would fathers want to marry off their daughters?
Marrying off daughters dates back to the days (and today, to the cultures) where women are/were seen as the property of first their fathers and later, of their husbands. As property, they were and in some cultures still are used as pawns in cementing family, clan or tribal relations. In some cultures, daughters are a source of income too, because of the bridal gifts with which the groom or his family has to buy the bride. The "marriage as a deal" by the way worked in both directions. A famous exchange from 18th century France has an adult son asking his father if it is true the the family is arranging a marriage for him. To which the father answers by telling the son to mind his own business. On the other hand, in northwestern Europe it was completely normal among the somewhat 'lower' social classes from the Middle Ages on for boys and girls of marriable age to choose partners themselves and marry for love (or convenience), just as today. In many rural communities it was even accepted that a pair married the moment when there was a first child on the way.
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Romeo and Juliet are wanting to rush and get married because they love each other. Teenagers today are about to express their love to someone without wanting to get married.
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