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For as long as literature has been around, authors have used imagery to make their point more understandable. Many times the use of bestial imagery is utilized to draw similar themes or traits between the actions of a character and others in the story. This is not a new technique, in fact it is one that dates back to the days of Shakespeare. The play Othello portrays bestiality as recurring theme and image from the …

…longer dominant. When one wants to know why we react the way we do at times, one needs only to look at the animal kingdom to be reminded of the instinctive nature that we as humans beings carry within ourselves. Othello is a play depicting the theme and imagery of bestiality. A theme conveyed to the surface to show the interested reader what happens when the animal that is our most inner fear is unleashed.