Othello character analysis
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- Created on: 07-11-21 20:58
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- Othello
- Tragic hero
- Protagonist
- Hamartia
- Extreme jealousy
- Trusting the wrong person
- Hubris (excessive pride)
- Refusal to change
- Not in Act 1 Scene 1
- Introduced to him through Iago who uses racist imagery and lang to describe him
- "Thick lips" 1.1.66
- "A Barbary horse" 1.1.113
- "Old black ram" 1.1.88
- Introduced to him through Iago who uses racist imagery and lang to describe him
- Victim of Iago
- Othello Music
- Poetic lang used by O at the beginning of the play
- Othello + Desdemona
- Married
- Initially in love
- turns sour - he kills her
- Relationship swaps by the end
- Earlier acts D is the dominant one with a voice
- By the end D has no voice and is overpowered by O
- Othello + Iago
- O begins mirroring I's mannerisms, gestures and lang
- Trust for I grows more over time
- Hamartia!!!
- Othello + Venetian society
- Cultural outsider
- Violent spiral: animalistic & demonic transgression against morality and God, made to be a monster by Iago
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