Racism

Question 1

Brabantio- Miscegenation

Answer 1

‘Against all laws of nature’

Question 2

Duke of Venice- racist defence

Answer 2

‘Your son-in-law is more fair than black’

Question 3

Othello- comparing Desdemona’s evil to his own nature

Answer 3

‘Begrimed and black as my own face’

Question 4

Othello- view on black

Answer 4

‘Arise black vengeance, from the hollow hell’

Question 5

Othello- white supremacy

Answer 5

‘Nor scar that white skin of hers’

Question 6

Iago- referral to Othello

Answer 6

‘The Moor’

Question 7

Iago- bestiality of miscegenation

Answer 7

‘Old black ram tupping your white ewe’

Question 8

Iago- animalism of black people

Answer 8

‘barbary horse’

Question 9

Iago- planting seeds of racial insecurity

Answer 9

‘of her own climb, complexion and degree’

Question 10

Iago- plants seeds of miscegenation to Brabantio

Answer 10

‘you’ll have your nephews neigh at you’

Question 11

Emelia- view of assimilated Othello shattered

Answer 11

‘Blacker devil!’

Question 12

Roderigo- racist epithet

Answer 12

‘Thick lips’

Question 13

Desdemona- fetishisation and mysticism surrounding Othello’s heritage

Answer 13

‘I think the sun where he was born drew all such humours from him’

Question 14

Desdemona- supporting/agreeing with Othello’s insecurity/ ‘otherism’

Answer 14

‘I saw Othello’s visage in his mind’