OTHELLO ACT 4
- Created by: Brig.hid
- Created on: 22-01-19 20:18
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- ACT 4
- scene 1
- Othello : 'A
fine woman,
a fair woman,
a sweet
woman!...let
her rot, and
perish, and
be damned
tonight;'
- rule of three, juxtaposition, graphic ruminations => brutality of character
- Othello : 'lie
with her! lie
on her! ...
handkerchief-confession-handkerchief!'
- Othello is corrupted by Iago (IDIOM). fractured sense of self (lexis/syntax) given way to passion
- Iago: 'With her, on her, what you will'
- Othello : "Aside" "Now he importunes her" "Now he denies it faintly"
- Othello's jealousy has blinded him to the truth. clouded judgement (MYOPIA)
- Othello : 'Devil.' [He strikes her]
- pathos for des, sound of this assault would leave an audience 'stupefied into derisive silence'.
- Othello : 'A
fine woman,
a fair woman,
a sweet
woman!...let
her rot, and
perish, and
be damned
tonight;'
- scene 2
- Othello : 'would
thou hadst
ne'er been
born!...cinders
burn up
modesty,'
- change in character, literally wishes her death.
- Emilia: "I durst my lord, to wager she is honest"
- des = innocence but Othello's clouded judgement and myopia prevents him to see this
- "This is a subtle whore" "Your wife my lord, your true and loyal wife"
- othello isn't under Iago's manipulation but he uses his idiom. exploitation of women
- Othello : 'would
thou hadst
ne'er been
born!...cinders
burn up
modesty,'
- scene 3
- Des : 'shroud
me in one of
those same
sheet. ...she
had a
song...and she
died singing
it. That song
tonight will
not go from
my mind.
- forebode of her death, irony. mournful folk ballad.
- Des : 'O,
these men,
these men!'
- men are her antithesis
- Des : 'shroud
me in one of
those same
sheet. ...she
had a
song...and she
died singing
it. That song
tonight will
not go from
my mind.
- scene 1
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