racialised language to present Othello as an outsider/other Flashcards
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the thicklips
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Roderigo 1.1 - this racialised synecdochal image of Othello others him
2
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though he in a fertile clime dwell,/Plague him with flies
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Iago 1.1 - whilst Othello is represented as high-up and respected in Venetian society, the religious imagery of Moses associates him as a religious and racial other
3
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an old black ram
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Iago 1.1 - this racialised zoomorphic metaphor dehumanises Othello and others him
4
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a Barbary horse
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Iago 1.1 - this necessarily racialised image (Barbary is a country in North Africa) combined with the zoomorphic image further dehumanises Othello
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the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor
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Iago 1.1 - this insult presents Othello as stereotypically sexually promiscuous
