Othello

Can you show how the different classes were prejudiced?

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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.

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