Racial prejudice

Question 1

Act 3.3 Othello associate’s blackness with something negative

Answer 1

Arise, black vengeance, from the hallow hell

Question 2

Act 1.1, Iago used animal imagery in his racist diatribe against Othello. Implying that Othello’s animal-like sexuality will corrupt Desdemona

Answer 2

You’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse,…. The Moor are now making the beast with two backs

Question 3

Act 5.2, Othello kills Desdemona and enacts racist stereotypes- those black men are violent; savage is to be feared

Answer 3

The more angel she, and you the blacker devil