Othello
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- Created on: 08-05-19 19:32
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- Othello
- Characters
- Othello
- "Her reputation, which was once as white as Dian's visage, is now as black as mine own face"
- "Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men"
- "She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them"
- "I, like the base Indian, threw a pearl away"
- "Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate. Nor set down aught in malice"
- Iago
- "The Moor and your daughter are making the beast with two backs"
- "I hate the Moor...that 'twixt my sheets has done my office"
- "Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners"
- "Even now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe"
- "Beware, my lord, jealousy is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on"
- Desdemona
- "My noble father, I do believe here a divided duty"
- Emilia
- "I nothing but to please his fantasy"
- "We are all but stomachs, and they are all but food"
- "The ills we do, their ills instruct us so"
- Cassio
- "Reputation! Reputation! Reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself"
- Othello
- Context
- Renaissance and Racism
- Moors were seen to be 'dark' and 'treacherous' because of their skin colour
- "That thou hast...abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals"
- Genre
- Aristotelian tragedy: there is hamartia, agnorisis and catharsis
- Setting
- Venice was a misogynist society, as well as racist
- Coutezans in Venice operated legally: it was even taxed although women were still oppressed
- Renaissance and Racism
- Themes
- Love
- "The world hath not a sweeter creature"
- "Sweet Desdemona"
- "My heart's subdued"
- "I am bound to thee for ever"
- Jealousy
- "Be sure of it: give me the ocular proof"
- "I'll see before I doubt"
- "It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock"
- "Heaven keep the monster from Othello's mind!"
- Racism
- "Old black ram is tupping your white ewe'"
- "Thick lips"
- "The Moor"
- Hatred
- "It is a common thing - to have a foolish wife"
- "I will chop her into messes"
- "Why did I marry?"
- Love
- Love through the ages
- Courtly Love
- Desdemona is of a much higher class than Othello
- Tragic Love
- Othello's hamartia and Iago's manipulation of it
- Means that 'Othello' turns into a tragedy, as his true love for Desdemona will never be realised
- Sexual Love
- Iago makes explicit sexual references to Desdemona and Othello's relationship, to make Othello seem predatory
- "Your daughter is covered with a Barbary horse"
- Courtly Love
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