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Question 1

‘white ram tupping your white ewe’
What act and what scene?

Answer 1

Act 1 scene 1

Question 2

‘Thick lips’
What act and what scene?

Answer 2

Act 1 scene 1

Question 3

‘white ram tupping your white ewe’
Analysis

Answer 3

Animalistic imagery suggests passion is beastial and uncontrolled.
‘Tupping’ ‘Ram’ and ‘Ewe’ makes it seem like Othello has a dominating power over innocent Desdemona.

Question 4

‘Thick lips’
Analysis

Answer 4

Othello is reduced to a racialized physical attribute so treated as inhumane.
Big lips are also a symbol of sexuality so this suggests he’s hypersexual.

Question 5

‘you’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse.’
What act and what scene?

Answer 5

Act 1 scene 1

Question 6

‘you’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse.’
Analysis

Answer 6

Illustrate hostility towards Othello’s ethnicity and interracial marriage.
convey the ideas of someone less than human. Iago assumes that Iago is like a wild horse: not civilized, uncontrolled and grew in natural condition.

Question 7

‘O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!’
What act and what scene?

Answer 7

Act 5 scene 2

Question 8

‘O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!’
Analysis

Answer 8

When he lives up to the racist stereotypes emplaced on to him.
Devil was considered to be ‘black’.
Angel suggests the purity of Desdemona as a white woman.

Question 9

‘Making the beasts with two backs’
What act and what scene?

Answer 9

Act 1 scene 1

Question 10

’ Your daughter and the moor are now making the beasts with two backs’
Analysis

Answer 10

Connotes that othello is a beast to whom is ravishing Brabantio’s virtuous daughter who is isn’t capable of free will.