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B Trolls Eye View_SE_JLG Guide.pdf - Junior Library Guild
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Social Studies & Literature<br />
Connection<br />
Othello was a character in Shakespeare’s play, The<br />
Tragedy of Othello. In the play, Othello was a Moor<br />
married to a woman named Desdemona, whom he<br />
killed in a jealous rage.<br />
The Othello in Nancy Farmer’s “Othello’s Castle”<br />
is partly based on a real man named Leo Africanus, a<br />
Moor who lived in the 1600s. Africanus was captured<br />
by pirates and was sent as a slave to Pope Leo X,<br />
whom he impressed with his intelligence. Then,<br />
Pope Leo changed the man’s name to Johannes Leo.<br />
The Moor taught Arabic in Rome and wrote several<br />
books about his travels in Africa. (He was never<br />
named Othello and did not have many wives.)<br />
Why do you think Ms. Farmer chose to combine two<br />
tales, one a fairy tale and the other a true story, into<br />
this fractured fairy tale?<br />
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