Oh - hmm. Uhoh. That's another mis-interpretation of shakespeare there:
(description: snippet from dracula highlighting "I sympathise with poor Desdemona when she had such a dangerous stream poured in her ear, even by a black man." )
Obviously Othello is also of its time in a way but the poisoning being poured in ears in Othello did NOT happen in that way. Iago did all the poisoning and Desdemona was, as far as my understanding of the play goes, not actually even interested in the rival lover that Othello was made to believe in. She was fully loyal to him which is the tragedy.
Lucy's interpretation of the play is being used here to show us she took it as a very different story, of Desdemona actually being caught between lovers and suffering for it. I don't even remember Iago whispering very much to Desdemona at all? I felt like the whole thing was a psychological warfare from him against Othello, who he was homoerotically obsessed with, and all the other characters were puppets to his scheme.
I'd guess it's to show us (the educated Victorian reader who knows Shakespeare as an inescapable cultural monolith, since the references are weighted towards us knowing and also knowing they're wrong) that she's not particularly media savvy, takes the silly romantic read even of a horrible tragedy where there should be no room for that interpretation.
The comment at the end is just horrible phrasing for the old period typical racism. I doubt it's directly implying anything too awful though about anyone except Lucy's interpretation of the world, since we're supposed to get the reference and know she has it wrong as well, and therefore her impression of Othello being the bad guy in Othello is hilariously off-centre.
Just feeling like getting something said after hundreds of thousands of people just got that mailed to their inboxes :')
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