Racism in Othello

Question 1

Act 1 Scene 1
Racism

Answer 1

“-does the thick lips owe”
Mocking his facial features.

Question 2

Act 1 Scene 1
Racism

Answer 2

“Thieves, Thieves!”
Stereotyping Black men as thieves.
Repetition from line 80-82

Question 3

Act 1 Scene 1
Racism

Answer 3

“Sir, you’re robbed”
Stereotyping. Discrimination.

Question 4

Act 1 Scene 1
Racism

Answer 4

“You have lost half your soul; Even now, now an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.”
= is having its way with your white lamb.
Black= villainous.
White= innocence.
Brabantio is bleeding away his very soul- grotesque act- biracial relationship.
Sexual reference.

Question 5

Act 1 Scene 1
Racism

Answer 5

“The devil will make a grandsire of you.”
Othello= Devil- he’ll make you a grandfather.

Question 6

Act 1 Scene 1
Racism

Answer 6

” What tell’st thou me of robbing?”
What are you talking about robbing.
Otello=thief. Racist stereotypes.

Question 7

Act 1 Scene 1
Racism

Answer 7

“You’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse,”
Giving Othello animalistic qualities. Dark-skinned like a horse. Racist, comparing him with an animal .

Question 8

Act 1 Scene 1
Racism.

Answer 8

“To tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”
Othello and Desdemona= S Intercourse.
Beast- Othello - racist description.

Question 9

Act 1 Scene 1
Racism

Answer 9

“Your fair daughter,- to the grasps of a lascivious Moor”.
Your beautiful daughter is handed over to the gross hands of a lustful Moor.
Stereotyping.
Prejudice.

Question 10

Act 1 Scene 1
Racism

Answer 10

“Tying her duty, beauty. wit and fortunes in an extravagant and wheeling stranger of here and everywhere”
You have given all her beauty and power to a Wandering foreigner (like Heathcliff).