Othello

What is the point of the story of the Turk in Aleppo? (I fixed the question)

And say besides that in Aleppo once,

Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk

Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,

I took by the throat the circumcisèd dog,

And smote him, thus.

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This is Othello's final speech before he stabs himself. Here Othello makes a comment on how he was both part of venetian society and excluded from Venetian society. Othello recalls seeing a foreigner (Turk) beating a Venetian so he killed the Turk. Now Othello finds himself killing the only venetian he ever loved so he must kill himself, now a reviled foreigner.