quotes about RACE

Question 1

thou didst hold him in thy hate - (Roderigo)

Answer 1

act 1 scene 1
analysis : immediatly Iago’s hatred of ‘the moor’ is established, signifying the racial undertones

Question 2

thick lips - (Roderigo)

Answer 2

act 1 scene 1
analysis : demonstrates how Othello is made an outsider because of his black skin

Question 3

an old black ram is tupping your white ewe - (Iago)

Answer 3

act 1 scene 1
analysis : blatantly shows Iago’s racial prejudice, hatred for othello. ‘black’ vs ‘white’ jusxtaposes Desdemona’s goodness against Othello’s assumed monstrosity

Question 4

your daughter and the moor are now making the beast with two backs - (Iago)

Answer 4

act 1 scene 1
analysis : sexual imagery mixed with bestial imagery. unchristian and hellish behaviour which accentuates the ‘villainous’ and ‘monstrous’ behaviour of Othello

Question 5

it is too true an evil … is there not charms by which the property of youth and maidenhood may be abused? - (Babrantio)

Answer 5

act 1 scene 1
analysis : babrantio indicates his hatred of Othello, accuses him of witchcraft, hellish methods becuase of his skin colour. doesn’t believe his ‘fair’ Desdemona could love someone like him

Question 6

thou hast practiced on her with foul charms, abused her delicate youth with drugs - (Babrantio)

Answer 6

act 1 scene 2
analysis : babrantio refuses to believes his desdemona could ‘fall in love with what she feared to look on’. he assumes othello has used hellish methods.

Question 7

I had rather adopt a child than to get it - (Babrantio)

Answer 7

act 1 scene 3
analysis : because desdemona chooses othello, she chooses to be accepting of his race and thereforee Babrantio’s racist ideals take over him

Question 8

For I am black, I have not the soft parts of conversation - (Othello)

Answer 8

act 3 scene 3
analysis : shows how more and more Othello is accepting these stereotypical ideas about him, he believes them - he becomes what they all feared he was

Question 9

My Lord is not my Lord - (Desdemona)

Answer 9

act 3 scene 4
analysis : depicts Othello’s slow descent into his monstrous form, he becomes what they believed him to be.

Question 10

Zounds! - (multiple, but mainly falls into Othello’s vocabulary)

Answer 10

throughout
analysis : originally found in Iago’s speech, but slowly slips into Othello’s language - he is slowly becoming more montrous

Question 11

he is much changed - (Iago)

Answer 11

act 4 scene 1
analysis : depicts Othello’s descent into his monstrous form, he becomes what they believed him to be.

Question 12

Let her rot and perish and be damned … I will chop her into messes - (othello)

Answer 12

act 4 scene 1
analysis : violent and graphic imagery - Othello explains how he montrously wishes to murder his wife

Question 13

some bloody passion shakes your very frame - (desdemona)

Answer 13

act 5 scene 2
analysis : depicts how Othello has much changed and how he has become devlish and hellish and cruel

Question 14

the more angel she and you the blacker devil - (Emilia)

Answer 14

act 5 scene 2
analysis : racial prejudice overtakes Emilia, Othello is the monster they all believed him to be

Question 15

Speak of me as I am - (Othello)

Answer 15

act 5 scene 2
analysis : Othello’s moment of agnorisis as he realises he has become who everyone feared he was. wishes to be remembered authentically

Question 16

arise black vengence from thy hollow cell - (Othello)

Answer 16

act 3 scene 3
analysis : Othello transforms into a monster, he accepts his bestaiality and becomes it