Othello

Why has Shakespeare chosen to introduce the main character in this way? How are we, as the audience, being positioned to see Othello and to see other characters?

In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, people that are moor's are outsiders by people. Shakespeare introduces Othello throughout the whole beginning of the play not by his names but by a rude and racist name to Othello. In the play he is called by Iago  “the Moor” (I.i.57), “the thick-lips” (I.i.66), “an old black ram” (I.i.88), and “a Barbary horse” (I.i.113), this is because they thought of them as nothing that was worth considering. Shakespeare does not introduce Othello in the first act as he wants use to see how people act towards and treat him.