In the beginning of Othello the words “thick lips” and “an old black ram” are used to describe the protagonist. It is surprising that before the name (Othello), comes the horrible name calling made by the people who are close to Othello. Adler speaks that in the first scene prior to meeting with the audience, several insulting attributions are made about the character Othello, “the stereotyped lasciviousness” is brought about by various brutal bindings and the race’s black and devil’s black are incorporated. Played on a sixteenth century idea that black men were evil and that the devil often took the shape and form of a black man. In act 1 scene1 Brabantio says to Iago “this is venice not a grange” this is were, Brabantio objects to Iago's
