《奥瑟罗》是莎士比亚著名的悲剧作品,多数学者认为人物的性格缺陷是造成悲剧的主要原因,而本文认为性格缺陷并非产生悲剧的根源,莎士比亚旨在通过描写黑人奥瑟罗以外邦人的身份在威尼斯城邦遭受歧视的种种不平等待遇,成功揭露了十七世纪英国社会的城邦歧视和种族歧视是造成奥瑟罗悲剧命运的根本原因。 “Othello” is a famous tragedy of Shakespeare. Most scholars think that the character’s flaw is the main cause of the tragedy. However, this article thinks that the character flaw is not the origin of the tragedy. Shakespeare aims to describe the identity of the foreigner The unequal treatment of discrimination in the city of Venice, the successful disclosure of the city-state discrimination and racial discrimination in British society in the seventeenth century, are the root causes of Othello’s tragic fate.