Othello 1st essay plan
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- Essay
- How does S present aspects of love in this passage?
- Romantic
- 'I crave fit disposition for my wife'
- Want to protect when away (intentions)
- Gives this up instantly when she proposes to join him
- Doesn't consider her safety
- Defends & supports (actions)
- esp. unique in time period
- Acting in own interests
- Lovers should be equal
- Defends & supports (actions)
- Doesn't consider her safety
- Gives this up instantly when she proposes to join him
- Want to protect when away (intentions)
- 'my scorn of fortunes'
- Make sacrifices
- e.g. social standing (interracial)
- Shouldn't matter
- A huge sacrifice at the time & a show of true love
- Nothing but the personality matters in love
- 'What's in a name?'
- France marries C because of honesty despite loss of drowry
- v rare at the time
- love>social standing
- Rather elope with R than stay and marry P
- Shouldn't matter
- Familial
- 'I'll not have it so'
- Rejection of daughter
- due to eloping; normal in context
- Patriachal society
- 'go with Paris to St Peter's Church, Or I will drag thee'
- L deciding who gets what land
- He is the king, who else would chose?
- Giving the power to his daughters
- 'Where most you owe obedience?'
- Patriachal society
- Familial love is bound by social convention
- 'disobedient wretch'
- L banishing C
- Doesn't show this
- Familial love is bound by social convention
- 'disobedient wretch'
- dramatic irony: audience know it's due to sincerity, L thinks itss due to a lack of love/trying
- Familial love is bound by social convention
- Doesn't show this
- due to eloping; normal in context
- Rejection of daughter
- 'To put my father in impatient thoughts'
- Daughter a burden
- 'I am glad at soul I have no other child'
- 'you baggage'
- Daughter a burden
- C risks and loses her life for L
- Make sacrifices
- e.g. social standing (interracial)
- Shouldn't matter
- A huge sacrifice at the time & a show of true love
- Nothing but the personality matters in love
- 'What's in a name?'
- France marries C because of honesty despite loss of drowry
- v rare at the time
- love>social standing
- Rather elope with R than stay and marry P
- Shouldn't matter
- Familial
- 'I'll not have it so'
- Rejection of daughter
- due to eloping; normal in context
- Patriachal society
- 'go with Paris to St Peter's Church, Or I will drag thee'
- L deciding who gets what land
- He is the king, who else would chose?
- Giving the power to his daughters
- 'Where most you owe obedience?'
- Patriachal society
- L banishing C
- Doesn't show this
- dramatic irony: audience know it's due to sincerity, L thinks itss due to a lack of love/trying
- Doesn't show this
- due to eloping; normal in context
- Rejection of daughter
- 'To put my father in impatient thoughts'
- Daughter a burden
- 'I am glad at soul I have no other child'
- 'you baggage'
- Daughter a burden
- C risks and loses her life for L
- 'I'll not have it so'
- e.g. social standing (interracial)
- Make sacrifices
- 'I'll not have it so'
- e.g. social standing (interracial)
- Make sacrifices
- 'Let her have your voice'
- Defends & supports (actions)
- esp. unique in time period
- Acting in own interests
- Lovers should be equal
- Defends & supports (actions)
- 'I crave fit disposition for my wife'
- Romantic
- Desdemona is presented as 'a typically naive young woman whose love is little more than hero-worship'
- Elsewhere in book
- 'She loved me for the dangers I had passed'
- Her love is based in admiration
- This is how they began their relationship but not the only reason she loves him
- R & J began relationship through attraction (looks) but loved each other because of fate
- 'What lady's that'
- 'Did my heart love till now?'
- Initial reasons for attractions don't define the whole relationship
- This is how they began their relationship but not the only reason she loves him
- R & J began relationship through attraction (looks) but loved each other because of fate
- 'What lady's that'
- 'Did my heart love till now?'
- Initial reasons for attractions don't define the whole relationship
- The development of relationships is what defines them
- 'What lady's that'
- R & J began relationship through attraction (looks) but loved each other because of fate
- The development of relationships is what defines them
- This is how they began their relationship but not the only reason she loves him
- 'What lady's that'
- R & J began relationship through attraction (looks) but loved each other because of fate
- This is how they began their relationship but not the only reason she loves him
- Her love is based in admiration
- 'She loved me for the dangers I had passed'
- This passage
- 'My soul and fortunes [whole being & future] consecrate'
- consecrate: dedicated to a religious purpose
- 'to his honours'
- Sees him as holy (above her)
- Hero worship
- When in love we see our lovers as perfect
- Simply presents their love
- Romantic
- 'I crave fit disposition for my wife'
- Want to protect when away (intentions)
- Gives this up instantly when she proposes to join him
- Doesn't consider her safety
- Doesn't consider her safety
- Gives this up instantly when she proposes to join him
- Want to protect when away (intentions)
- 'my scorn of fortunes'
- 'Let her have your voice'
- 'I crave fit disposition for my wife'
- Romantic
- 'dear saint'
- Simply presents their love
- When in love we see our lovers as perfect
- Patriarchal society
- Hero worship
- Giving all of herself to him
- naive
- But expected at the time
- naive
- Sees him as holy (above her)
- 'to his honours'
- consecrate: dedicated to a religious purpose
- 'comply with heat...satisfaction'
- O expects sexual gratification
- Could suggest impure/superficial motivation/love
- Therefore her naivity
- Is this unreasonable?
- Didn't say it in a domineering way
- Also followed it with 'free and bounteous to her mind'
- In the context of consummated marriage
- Juliet treated her consummation as normal/not a big deal
- 'a highway to my bed'
- It is not unreasonable for married couples to have/expect sex
- 'a highway to my bed'
- Juliet treated her consummation as normal/not a big deal
- Didn't say it in a domineering way
- Could suggest impure/superficial motivation/love
- O expects sexual gratification
- 'My soul and fortunes [whole being & future] consecrate'
- Elsewhere in book
- How does S present aspects of love in this passage?
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