A study of these two plays, Kalidasa's "Shakuntala" and Shakespeare's "Othello", reveals that there are more similarities than differences between attitudes towards love, duty, women, and society. It explains that in the East all aspects of social behavior are more deeply associated with religion and spirituality than the West. It points out that Asian cultures have always emphasized the importance of
family, clan,
caste, and
community, as compared to the more individual and independent view of
existence taken up by Europeans.
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