Friday, March 18, 2011

Imagery

Iago uses animal imagery to describe Othello.
"Even now, now, very now, an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe...you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse; you'll have your nephews neigh to you; you'll have coursers for cousins and gennets for germans"(1.1.90)

Or when Iago is talking to Othello about Cassio's and Desdemona's affair.
"It is impossible you should see this, / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross / As ignorance made drunk."(3.3.402-405)

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