Othello key words

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  • Created on: 04-02-24 12:00
What is Catharsis
The audience reacts to play with pathos (pity) and fear and so is cleansed.
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Tragic Hero
High status at the start and has a fatal flaw that leads to the downfall. Typically in other Shakespeare plays, tragic hero is a figure of high importance and wealth (Othelllo contradicts this)
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Harmartia
Fatal flaw- Othello's is insecurity
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Anagnorisis
moment the hero realises he is to blame for his downfall. (Act 5)
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Hubris
A heros extreme pride and disrespect for the natural order of the world
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peripeteia
when heros luck shifts from good to bad- when othhello is convinced that desdemona is unfaithful and plan sto murder her (act 4)
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What is Act 1 also known as (structrally in Shakespearean plays)
protasis or the exposition
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What is Act 2 structurally known as?
Epitasis (rising action and inciting incident)
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What is Act 3 Struturally known as?
End of epitasis and the climax
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What is Act 4 structurally known as
Catastrophe and the falling action
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What is Act 5 structurally known as?
Denouncement and resolution
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Blank Verse
The form in which a character speaks
Othello in act 1 speaks in blank verse however after hsi deterioration he in act 4 speaks in fragmented sections
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Tragic Hero

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High status at the start and has a fatal flaw that leads to the downfall. Typically in other Shakespeare plays, tragic hero is a figure of high importance and wealth (Othelllo contradicts this)

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Harmartia

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Anagnorisis

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Hubris

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