Othello Reading

Using the Othello play, please answer the following five questions in roughly 70 words each

How does race play a factor? Name specific parts where race is a factor of changing the course of the play or restricting/allowing for certain actions to take place.

How is Othello’s character portrayed? (personality traits, physical features, position, etc) In the beginning, progress in the middle?

  1. What are signs of conflict you notice in the beginning? Do your predictions prove true in the middle of the play? What has changed and stayed the same?
  2. What parts stood out to you and why?
  3. List the plot points

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