Othello
Can you show how the different classes were prejudiced?
provide quotes plz
provide quotes plz
From the text:
“an old black ram is tupping your white ewe” (Iago – Act One Scene One)
“thick lips” (Iago – Act One Scene One)
“covered with a Barbary horse” (Iago – Act One Scene One)
“o, the more angel, she and you the blacker devil” (Emilia – Act Five Scene Two)
“Your son-in-law is far more fair than black” (Duke – Act One Scene Three)
“The sooty bosom of such a thing as thou” (Brabantio – Act One Scene Two)
Othello is constantly referred to as, “the moor” as if his ethnicity is more important than his name.
Othello