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“Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” (3.3.169-171) - Iago

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“For that I do suspect the lusty Moor hath leaped into my seat. The thought whereof doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards” - Iago

“Till I am evened with him, wife for wife” - Iago

“No, Iago, I'll see before I doubt, when I doubt, prove, and on the proof there is no more but this: Away at once with love or jealousy!” (3.3.193-196) - Othello

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Both texts use this notion of contrasting a moor or black person to an animal, lowering the individuals status and dehumanizing them to be inferior.

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Othello’s insecurity about his skin color. He is the highly-respected general of the armies of Venice. He is not a native of Venice, but rather a Moor, or North American. Othello is easy prey to insecurities because of his self-consciousness about being a racial and cultural outsider.

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"He was moving now. Not like a bear, with its bulky lumbering gait. More like a wolf, or -Dee tried to think of dark animals - a panther, scaled up from house cats."

The book is referring to him with more animalistic characteristics

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IAGO
"Even now, now, very now, an old black ram. Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise; Awake the snorting citizens with the bell, Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you. Arise I say!" (Act I, 1, 89-93)

When Iago says an "old black ram" (Othello) is sleeping with Brabantio's "white ewe" (Desdemona), he plays on Elizabethan notions that black men have an animal-like, hyper-sexuality.

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As the new black kid at an American all-white school in New York, Osei is heavily discriminated against and constantly looked down upon because of his skin colour and ethinicity

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Chevalier attempts to recreate the violence from Othello but 'tones it down' and rather uses descriptive language to emphasise the violence between 11 year olds

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“That was when Dee crumbled. With a shriek she turned and ran, faster than O could have imagined”

“She felt hands grab her ankle and then a sharp tug that dislodged her from the bars of the jungle gym…the jolt of pain that flooded her body was so overwhelming she didn’t even feel her head bang against the asphalt.”

“Just before he plummeted, she heard Miss Lode cry, ‘Osei, don’t!’”

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Emilia uses the terms "Angel" and "devil" for Desdemona and Othello to juxtapose and compare their opposing natures of purity and corruptedness

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"Desdemona: A guiltless death I die

Emilia: O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!"

"[Iago stabs Emilia from behind and exit.]"

"[He stabs himself]"

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New Boy is set in the 1970s at an American primary school. Hence the violence involved in New Boy is not as harsh as the original due to the involvement of 11 year-old children

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Othello is set in Elizabethan era where war and sword fighting were prominent. Hence the physical violence involved in Othello revolves around swords and hand-to-hand combat