Othello-Racial otherness
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- Created on: 01-01-17 15:56
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- Modern parallels
- Othello- Racial Otherness by Richard Marriott
- Racial slurs
- "the thick lips" Act 1 scene 1 line 67
- "the devil" Act 1 scene 1 line 93
- "an old black ram" Act 1 scene 1 line 88
- Othello being an Ottoman is a sign of his cruelty
- Black symbolises promiscuity
- Ram- overrun by offspring as they impregnate all the sheep
- Ironic as Desdemona's 'infidelity' is the said cause of their mariital breakdown
- Ram- overrun by offspring as they impregnate all the sheep
- "a Barbary horse" Act 1 scene 1 line 112
- "the sooty bosom" Act 1 scene 2 line 70
- "Your son-in-law is far more fair than black"
- Compliment
- Racial undertone
- Fair is redeemable
- Black is undesirable
- Implies that white men are more well-spoken
- Shakespeare
- Master vs Servant
- Iago
- Othello
- aware of commercial success of his contempories
- Ben Jonson
- Thomas Decker
- undermines prejudices and preconceptions
- Merchant of Venice
- human condtiion
- Jewish butcher
- outsider
- Master vs Servant
- Othello
- great man are a result of
- Birth
- Merit
- Venice
- embodies best and worst of our society
- opposing views shows conflict in the human condition
- great man are a result of
- Racial slurs
- Emma McQuiston
- married into aristocracy
- Her father-in-law and many others express Brabantio's fears of contamination
- First black/mixed race viscountess
- Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed
- son of an Egyptian billionaire
- rumoured to be pregnant at the time of their death
- Once born, their offspring would have Christian and Muslim parentage
- just like Othello and Desdemona
- Once born, their offspring would have Christian and Muslim parentage
- Othello- Racial Otherness by Richard Marriott
- Emma McQuiston
- married into aristocracy
- Her father-in-law and many others express Brabantio's fears of contamination
- First black/mixed race viscountess
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