How essential to the play is the fact that Othello is a black man, a Moor,and not a native of Venice?
What will be an ideal response?
- Othello is an outsider, one not totally familiar with the ways of the Venetians. Both Iago and Brabantio at various points suggest to his face that there is something unnatural about a beautiful, socially prominent young white woman—one besieged with suitors of a like kind—falling in love with a middle-aged black man. All of this makes it easier for Iago to play on Othello’s latent insecurities and stir his self-doubts; and so the fact seems quite essential to the plot. (See especially I, iii, 60–66, 96–107, and III, iii, 215–23, 244–53, 274–84.)
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Lee las siguientes oraciones acerca del futbolista Diego Forlán y complétalas con la forma correcta del subjuntivo o el indicativo del verbo entre paréntesis.
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