"from the first scene to the last hated and despised"
1 of 28
Charles Lamb
( "Richard, Macbeth... even Iago")- " intellectual activity prompts them to overleap those moral fences"
2 of 28
Leavis
- lack of change etc : " othello dies belonging to the world of action in which his true part lay"
3 of 28
Loomba
" Othello is both a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance and a nightmare of racial hatred and male violence"
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Loomba
" hierarchies are not external to the pair"
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Loomba
"Othello is predisposed to believing his pronouncements about the inherent duplicity of women"
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Loomba
"Othello is a victim of racial beliefs precisely because he becomes and agent of misogynist ones"
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Neely
"two parts of a single motive"
8 of 28
Eastman
"For Iago irony is compensatory.It bridges the gap between his self esteem and the place accorded him by the world"
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Phillips
"is the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war."
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Phillips
"constantly threatened and profoundly insecure"
11 of 28
Tapp
"Blanche Dubois is a victim of the mythology of the southern Belle"
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Onyett
"Stanley strips he of her psychological, sexual and cultural identity."
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Bentley
Darwinian: clash of "species"
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Corrigan
"the external events of the play, while actually occurring, serve as a metaphor for blanche's internal conflict"
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Gazolla
"...the play is structure on the basis of oppositions"
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Kermode
Catherine E/H/L = " Catherine Earnshaw begins and ends the narrative"/ "like movement of the house"/ "And all the movements must be through Heathcliff"
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Ghent
"the aim to cross physical boundaries represents the wish to transcend psychological barriers and a desire to unite the two incompatible kinds of reality"
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Freud
dreams = conflict between conscious and unconcious
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Feminist
= phallic symbol of gun and whip
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Marxist
= triumph of capitalism over a belated feudalism in which competition becomes the new tyranny"
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Peterson
= education conflicting " On the one hand, the denial of education is seen as a form of social punishment; on the other, the conventional forms of nineteenth-century education are frequently pitted against power, both sexual and physical"
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Gilbert and Gubar
Edgar = masculine vs Heathcliff= feminine ( Nelly calls Edgar "the master", Lockwood calls Heathcliff "Mr Heathcliff"
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Gilbert and Gubar
nature = female vs culture= male
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Gilbert and Gubar
Heathcliff's ending mirrors Catherines " unable to eat/feverish/ obsessed with the elements= death also partly a result of his encounter with culture, in the form of Cathy"
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Showalter
"The insistent chiming of clocks keeps us aware of the passage of time and the measuring out of human lives"
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Bowlby
"Peter Walsh represents the romantic hero rejected in favour of the conventionality personified by the conservative Mp"
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Batchelor
"Mrs Dalloway uses the idea of public and private life as a eans of exploring an opposition between a masculine view of the world (that of doing) and a feminine vie ( that of feeling)
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
( "Richard, Macbeth... even Iago")- " intellectual activity prompts them to overleap those moral fences"
Back
Charles Lamb
Card 3
Front
- lack of change etc : " othello dies belonging to the world of action in which his true part lay"
Back
Card 4
Front
" Othello is both a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance and a nightmare of racial hatred and male violence"
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