1
Q
’ I am not what I am”
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- equivocation, purposefully misleading language
- paradox, riddle like- emblematic of Iagos power - DECEPTION
BIBLICAL CONNOTATIONS: Exodus 4:14 Moses asks God what name he should refer to him as to the Pharaoh, God’s response: I AM WHAT I AM = direct opposite
2
Q
‘Master’s ass’
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- criticizing people who follow their master
- stupidity and cowardice of a donkey
- disrupting heirarchy, creating chaos = prejudice
3
Q
‘thick lips’
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- reducing him to a racialized physical attribute
- taking away subjectivity as a whole person
- hypersexual nature, big lips = symbol of sexuality
4
Q
‘babary horse’ ‘black ram’ ‘beast with two backs’ ‘lascivious moor’
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- primal and uncivilised
- unable to control baser, sexual instincts- predatory
- characteristics become intrinsically tied to his skin colour = PREJUDICE
5
Q
‘You’re robbed’ ‘he hath boarded a land carrack’
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- ‘carrack’ = treasure ship = reduced DES to her wealth
- ‘ship’ trade= commodification
- occurs amid a conversation about war- people are sent with the high possibility of death- women = waste of life
6
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‘our bodies are our gardens’
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- tend to your gardens- external how you present yourself matters in society, if you let your garden go wild- shows inner self
- ‘garden’ = nature balanced ironic disrupting natural order
- ego- garden = conform to society
