Othello: The character of Othello - F R Leavis 'Diabolic intellect and the noble hero' 1937
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- Othello: The character of Othello - F R Leavis 'Diabolic intellect and the noble hero' 1937
- When he discovers his mistake his reaction is an intolerably intensified form of the common ' i could kick myself'
- 'intolerably intensified' ; unable to be enurded
- 'Whip me, ye devils From the possession of this heavenly sight. Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur!'
- Metaphorically inflicting pain onto himself.
- There is no tragic self discovery
- Self discover; finding yourself, understanding/ evaluating your past
- Othello starts in 1st person and switches to 3rd
- 'Man but a rush against Othello's breast... where should Othello go'
- Shows self discovery as he is being subjective, analysing his character.
- Othello starts in 1st person and switches to 3rd
- 'Man but a rush against Othello's breast... where should Othello go'
- Shows self discovery as he is being subjective, analysing his character.
- Shows self discovery as he is being subjective, analysing his character.
- 'Man but a rush against Othello's breast... where should Othello go'
- Othello starts in 1st person and switches to 3rd
- Shows self discovery as he is being subjective, analysing his character.
- 'Man but a rush against Othello's breast... where should Othello go'
- Othello starts in 1st person and switches to 3rd
- Othello uses 'self dramatizing tricks' in order to portray himself as 'tragically pathetic'
- 'But, O vain boast, who can control his fate?- Tis not so now'
- Othello talks about fate, suggesting he is blaming his life on external forces
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- Shows self dramatization as he is over exaggerating his hated and loss
- attempting to make the audience feel sorry for him
- Othello talks about fate, suggesting he is blaming his life on external forces
- Self dramatizing; dramatic technique of over exaggerating feelings
- 'But, O vain boast, who can control his fate?- Tis not so now'
- Self discover; finding yourself, understanding/ evaluating your past
- 'The fact that Othello tends to sentimentalize should be the reverse of a reason for our sentimentalizing too'
- We don't sympathise with Othello instead we judge him for revealing in his own tragedy and downfall
- At first Othello is the'stoic captain whose few words undo their full sufficiency'
- His 'epigrammatic tenseness of the dispatch, the dictated dispatch, begins to quiver'
- Othello's words ofeten sound philosopical & quotable, due to Iago's infuence this begins to break down, revealing more emtotion and a vulnerable side of him
- Delibertately over dramatic end symbolically affirms the reality
- 'Othello dies belonging to the world of action in which his true part lay'
- Othello dies dramatically in order to show his true self and character.
- 'Othello dies belonging to the world of action in which his true part lay'
- 'It is a superb coup de theatre'
- sudden turn of events-French
- When he discovers his mistake his reaction is an intolerably intensified form of the common ' i could kick myself'
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