... playing with Othello and gaining his trust to achieve what he wants and his is only going to get what he wants with his duplicitous actions. Line 67 - "Thick-lips" " White men were dominant and thought to be superior over any other race and this is evident when Roderigo used a derogatory term and racial slur, "thick-lips' towards the Moor, Othello ... skin of hers than snow and smooth as monumental alabaster." He intends to kill her but he describes her as whiter than snow and as her skin as smooth as marble. The color symbolism of her skin, "whiter skin of hers than snow" represents De...

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... a much more "grotesque" light. In Act 1, Iago uses bestial imagery to alarm the rage of Barbantio when he says, " an old black ram is tupping your white ewe." (Lines 97-98) His statement juxtaposes white vs. black imagery along with animal imagery to enrage the senator. He also uses similar imagery to enrage Othello in Act 3, Scene 2, when he describes Cassio and ... : My bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Shall swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow I here en...

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