... 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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