Othello - Race

Question 1

Sexually deviant

Answer 1

• “An old black ram is tupping your white ewe”
• “I do suspect the lusty Moor hath leaped into my seat”

Question 2

Dealing in drugs and witchcraft

Answer 2

• “By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks”
• “She was a charmer”

Question 3

Inferiority

Answer 3

• “Against all rules of nature”
• “her own clime, complexion and degree” / “One may smell in such a will most rank, foul disproportion”
• “Happy, for I am black”
• “That handkerchief did an Egyptian to my mother give”

Question 4

Aggressive and violent

Answer 4

• “I’ll tear her all to pieces!”
• “I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me!”