Iago Key Bits

Question 1

“An old. Black ram is ripping your white ewe” 1.1 links to “as assess are” 1.3

Answer 1

-Immediately establishes sense of racial hatred + racialisation in the play
-rams = aggressive dangerous + feral animals — theme racialisation as comparing O to animalistic nature of ram “Barbary horse”
-contemporary society saw people of colour subhuman
-sexual imagery signs of aggression + animalistic contrasted with fragility + delicacy of ‘white’ = innocence angelic beauty
-Iago speaking in prose — very vulgar + hateful speech immediately declaring deep hatred for O but very ambiguous clipped line