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Othello, Act 2, Scene 1. Iago’s undisguised racism and hatred for Othello emerge once more, as he tries to convince Roderigo that Desdemona will soon tire of her black devil husband. When she has her sexual fill of Othello, he predicts that she will seek another sexual partner.
We've seen how Iago uses animal imagery in his racist diatribe against Othello, which is grounded in the idea that black men (and women) are inhuman. Here, Brabantio objects to Iago's middle-of-the-night assertions that Desdemona has eloped by saying his house isn't a "grange" (a farm or a farmhouse).
Cassio uses Othello as the locus for fantasies of inseminating sexual renewal; Iago uses him as the repository for his own bodily insufficiency and his self-disgust. For Iago needs the blackness...
Yet racial prejudice is not the only prejudice on display in Othello. Many characters in the play also exhibit misogyny, or hatred of women, primarily focused on women's honesty or dishonesty about their sexuality. Several times, Othello's age is also a reason for insulting him.
The quote shows how fully Othello’s feelings towards Desdemona have changed: he now hates her as passionately as he previously loved her. The quote darkly foreshadows how Othello will be unmoved by Desdemona’s insistence on her innocence and pleas for her life to be spared.
28 lis 2011 · In the argument that follows I seek to redress this lack by demonstrating the reciprocal roles of racial ideology in the complexity of Othello 's formal structure and of formal expectations in the play's depiction of racial otherness. The key to this reciprocity is the concept of identification.
21 maj 2024 · However, the exploration of racism, sexism, and deception also is essential to the play. In this article, our writers elaborate on all the key themes of Othello and explain why Shakespeare included them. Every theme is illustrated by the quotes from the play.
