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  • AoT Links
    • Treatment of Women
      • Isabella - Brothers wanted to have her marry a rich man
        • 'coax her by some degrees to some high noble and his olive trees.'
      • Othello - Bianca being objectified, Iago's & Emi's views, Des' mistreatment.
        • 'I do think it is their husbands fault if wives do fall ' - Emi A4S3
          • 'Strumpet'   'look to your house, your daughter, and your bags! Thieves, thieves!' Iago A1S1
      • EOSA - Madeline being r*ped and being forced to stay with Pophyro b/c of it
        • 'Poor Madeline wept'
      • DOAS - Linda taking on the typical maternal role, being a stronghold of the house. Unwavering dedication to W no matter what he does
        • '[taking off his shoes]'  'Maybe it was the steering wheel again'
      • LBDSM - the faery being presented as a 'dangerous seductress' and being blamed for the knights misery
        • 'she look at me as she did love'  'full beautiful -a faery's child'
      • Lamia - being trapped and dominated over by Lycius. Debateable - she liked it.
        • 'Labyrinth you here'   'she loved the tyranny'
    • Suffering
      • Isabella - never ending suffering after Lorenzo died. The suffering of the working class under the brothers
        • 'she forgot the stars, the moon, the sun'  'red-lined accounts'
      • LBDSM - Knight suffering the manipulation he fell under, purgatory state of suffering.
        • 'alone and palely loitering'
      • DOAS - W inability to achieve the AD and the repercussions it brings to the family dynamic and his mental stability
        • 'I have such strange thoughts'  '[he loses himself in reminiscences]'
      • EOAS - the beadsman's suffering in the cold, M's suffering
        • 'fair Madeline began to weep'  'Numb were the beadsman's fingers'
      • Lamia - Lycius' suffering brings him to the point of death
        • 'his arms were empty of delight'
      • Othello - his mental suffering over D's 'betrayal', he has a fit and is driven to kill her
        • [falls in a trance] A4S1 'give thy worst of thoughts the worst of words' A3S3
    • Hostility of Nature
      • EOAS - the storm and the harsh cold the Beadsman faces
        • 'the lovers ran away in the storm' 'frozen grass/frosted breath'
      • LBDSM - nature reflecting the Knights emotions
        • 'sedge has withered from the lake/no birds sing'
      • Othello - the storm that kills the Turks allowing the audience to solely focus on the domestic conflict
    • Tragic Flaws
      • Othello - O is credulous & insecure
      • DOAS - W is insistent on achieving the AD - obsessed with the idea
      • LBDSM - knight believes what he sees, too keen to love.
      • Isabella - obsessed with Lorenzo
      • Lamia - Lycius want to show off their love, Lamia deceives others
    • Power
      • LBDSM - power shift between the knight and the woman.
        • 'La Belle Dame sans Merci the hath in thrall'
      • Othello - Iago's power over everyone allows he to easily manipulate the narrative to his desire
        • 'Honest Iago'  'pour pestilence into his ear' A2S3
      • Lamia - power over Lycius but then power shift. Manipulated Hermes and the nymph
        • 'thy sweet nymph' 'playing the woman's part'
      • DOAS - the power of the AD over the Loman's, consumes their lives
      • Isabella - brothers status gives them power to exploit the workers; Keats voice is heard
      • EOAS - Porphyro's power over Madeline 'my bride'
    • Blindness
      • Othello - O's blindness to Iago's manipulation, Des' blindness to the true cause of Oth's down fall
        • 'give me ocular proof' A3S3  'your wife, my lord; your true and loyal wife' A4S2
      • Isabella - Lorenzo's blindness to his murder
        • 'their murdered man'
          • LBDSM - Knights blindness (b/c of love) to the woman's true intentions
            • 'language strange she said I love thee true' 'she lulled me to sleep'
      • DOAS - W's blindness to his failures and to his families love
      • EOSA - the maids blindness to P's intentions - Debateable hinted to her knowing
        • 'far apart form wicked men like thee'
      • Lamia - Lycius' blindness to Apollonius' intentions
        • 'don't all sparks fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy'
    • Victims
      • LBDSM - Knight was manipulated. Woman didn't want the attention
      • Isabella - Lorenzo, the workers and Isabella
      • EOSA - Madeline, beadsman, Angela
      • Othello - Othello, mainly Desdemona
      • Lamia - nymph, Lamia & Lycius
    • Inevitability
      • Othello - D+O's relationship broke the laws of nature
      • Isabella - the difference in status and her suffering
      • DOAS - W's mind was already degrading
      • Lamia - relationship was built on magic not reality
      • LBDSM - cyclical structure
      • EOSA - the weather was symbolic of the tragedy

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