Although Iago uses honesty to manipulate at several stages in the play, there is one scene where he is brutally honest with Othello regarding race and his relationship with Desdemona. ... When this notion is applied to Desdemona pointing out that Cassio is white, whereas Othello is not, he is using honesty alongside the negative connotations associated with Othello's race in order to play on his jealousy and his fears. ... By placing these worries in their historical context, it is possible to observe how Othello may have felt as though he was at a serious disadvantage with regards to ...

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For at least the last two hundred years, race has functioned as one of the most powerful and yet most fragile markers of social difference. ... William Shakespeare also uses juxtaposing colors through the use of animal imagery and racial slurs to show racial difference and illustrate the issue of race. ... Prejudices held by the Venetian society as a whole are the first main source of racism encountered by Othello, followed by hate-inspired racism from the Iago, where he uses animal imagery to portray race. ... Animal imagery is strongly used throughout the play in order to illustrate the iss...

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But Othello is different. ... The person who shows his racist attitude directly to Othello is Brabantio who in Act 1 Scene 2 accuses Othello of using magic to lure his daughter, Desdemona. ... In Act 5 Scene 2, Emilia is disgusted with Othello when she finds out that Othello had killed Desdemona. ... These were values of being intolerable towards people of different race and the racial prejudice that existed between races and the beliefs of associated evil and dirtiness with black people. ... Another example in Othello to demonstrate this is in Act 1 Scene 3. ...

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