Racial Prejudice

Racial Prejudice

1. IAGO

   • Is racially prejudice towards Othello
   • Quotes
     • "The moor is of free and open nature , that think men honest that bur seem to be so, and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are" Act 1 Scene 3
     • "I hate the moor" Act 1 Scene 3
     • "Your daughter and the moor are to be making the beast with two backs" Act 1, Scene 1
     • "Even now, now, very now an old black ram is tapping your white ewe" Act 1 Scene 1

2. RODERIGO

   • Is racially prejudice towards Othello
   • Quotes
     • "Thick lips" Act 1 Scene 1
     • "To the grass clap of lascivious moor." Act 1 Scene 1

3. BRABANTIO

   • Is racially prejudice toward Othello
   • Quotes
     • "Thou hast enchanted her" Act 1 Scene 2
     • "Against all the rules of nature" Act 1 Scene 3
     • "To fall in love with what she feared to look on" Act 1 Scene 3
     • "foul thief" Act 1 Scene 2
     • "Run from her guardege to the sooty bosom"
     • "Corrupted by spells and medicines bought of mountebanks" Act 1 Scene 3

4. THE DUKE OF VENICE

   • Is not racial Prejudice towards Othello
   • Quotes
     • "Far more fair than black" Act 1 Scene 3

5. EMILIA

   • Is racially prejudice towards Othello
   • Quotes
     • "You are blacker than the devil" Act 5 Scene 2

6. Definitions

   • Racism-The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races
   • Prejudice-harm or injury that results or may result from actions or judgement
   • Racial Prejudice-Prejudice against or hostility towards people of another race