Brabantio Mindmap
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- Created on: 01-02-21 12:43
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- Why is Brabantio in Othello?
- How is he used in Act 1.1 to reveal Iago & Roderigo's villainy?
- He plays into their plan to interfere with Othello & Desdemona's marriage.
- This already reveals their destructive personas.
- Particularly Iago, the true tragic villain of the play.
- This already reveals their destructive personas.
- He plays into their plan to interfere with Othello & Desdemona's marriage.
- Why are his final lines so significant?
- 'She has deceived her father, and may thee'
- Warning Othello she may lie to him just as easily.
- Alludes to Iago's plan.
- Foreshadows the plot.
- Alludes to Iago's plan.
- Warning Othello she may lie to him just as easily.
- 'She has deceived her father, and may thee'
- What does this character help to reveal about Desdemona?
- Reveals her relationship with her father.
- How she chooses her marriage over him.
- 'A divided duty'
- Conveys she is strongminded
- Despite labels and gender stereotypes
- How she chooses her marriage over him.
- Plants the first seed of doubt about her.
- Reveals her relationship with her father.
- What does this character help to reveal about Othello?
- Reveals Othello's difficult past.
- Slavery, battles
- Reveals the love story of Othello and Desdemona.
- 'She loved me for the dangers I had passed'
- Reveals him as a character.
- Honourable, noble, well spoken.
- 'Most potent, grave and reverend signors'
- Honourable, noble, well spoken.
- Reveals Othello's difficult past.
- How does he add to establishing aspects of tragedy?
- He plants the first seed of doubt in Othello's mind.
- This sets up the tragedy to progress.
- Perhaps if he had never said this, Othello wouldn't have been manipulated?
- This sets up the tragedy to progress.
- Although he is not a likeable character, it makes Desdemona's death more heart breaking.
- He is her father at the end of the day.
- Also tragic how it appears he was right about Othello.
- He may feel her death was his fault as he gave in to his naïve daughter.
- He plants the first seed of doubt in Othello's mind.
- What does he represent and what is Shakespeare saying?
- Presents everything deemed acceptable in that society but would not be in ours now.
- Racism
- Accuses Othello of witchcraft.
- Cannot understand how Desdemona would love 'what she feared to look upon'
- Misogyny
- 'My daughter'
- Possessive pronoun
- 'Where most you owe obedience?'
- 'Maiden never bold'
- 'My daughter'
- Racism
- Presents everything deemed acceptable in that society but would not be in ours now.
- How is he used in Act 1.1 to reveal Iago & Roderigo's villainy?
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