Othello Characters and Literary criticisms

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What do feminists readings reveal about Emilia?
She is the most strongest and admirable character in Othello. They point to her words and actions in her final scene `so, speaking as I think, alas , I die'
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What quotes depict Emilia as weak and submissive to the patriarchy?
`hath a hundred times/ Woed me to steal it' and `I know not madam'
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What quotes illustrate Iago and Emilia's marital disharmony?
`a fooloish wife', `Villainous whore' , `Filth'
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What does E.A.J 1997 say about Emilia's actions?
ove triumphs hate. Emilia's love of Desdomona is Iago's undoing
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What quotes are there about Cassio's treatment of Bianca?
`bauble' `fitchew' he doesn't want to be seen `womaned'
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What does Cassio think of Othello?
`he was great of heart'
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Dsdomona is Iago's victim
`out of her own goodness make the net/ That shall enmesh them all'
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Ania Lomba
Othello is a nightmare of racial hatred and male violence
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Caryl Philllips
Othello is the result of his `insecurity' and the pressures faced by a `black man in a white world'
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
`epitome of evil' and an example of `motiveless malignity'
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Characteristics of the Jacobean Villain
Cynical, quick witted and opportunistic
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Susannah Clapp
Othello = feeler whilsts Iago = thinker
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Freudian interpretation
Iago is subconsciously in love with Othello `I am your own forever'
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Harold Goddard
`highest intellectual capabilities'
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