Appearance and Reality

Question 1

Othello

Answer 1

His race and ethnicity lead to Venetians to certain expectations - which are exploited by Iago and Roderigo in rousing up Brabantio’s indignation

Question 2

Quotes for he is a lusty sexual monster

Answer 2

“old black ram is tupping your white ewe”
“Barbary horse”
“making the beast with two backs”
“lascivious Moor” made Desdemona do a “gross revolt” with “gross clasps” on her

Question 3

Othello practices pagan witchcraft

Answer 3

“Damn’d as thou art, thou hast enchanted her”
“If she in chains of magic were not bound”
“practis’d on her with foul charms, abus’d her delicate youth with drugs or minerals that weakens motion”
“an abused of the world, a practiser of arts inhibited and out of warrant”