How Is Animal Imagery Used In Othello?
How Is Animal Imagery Used In Othello? When he describes Othello’s match with Desdemona he uses crude animal imagery, ‘an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe‘ he informs the senator (I. 1.87–8); his daughter has been ‘covered’ with ‘a Barbary horse’ (I. 1.110); the couple are ‘making the beast with two backs’