OTHELLO CRITICAL THEORY 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureOthelloA2/A-levelOCR Created by: fluffypinkunicorn101Created on: 26-02-18 09:22 A.C Bradley The Shakespearean tragic hero often (Othello) "befalls a conspicuous person" (Iago) 1 of 12 A.C Bradley The shakespearean tragic hero (Othello) experiences "A total reversal of fortune" 2 of 12 A.C Bradley Shakspearean tragedy "is concerned always with persons of 'high degree'" (Othello) 3 of 12 Honigmann (Iago) "confides in us, so we watch his plot unfolding from his point of view" 4 of 12 Honigmann (Iago) "is the play's chief humorist" 5 of 12 Honigman (Iago) wears many masks, "Iago's convenient masks... may blind readers to Iago's essential ******" 6 of 12 Honigmann (Iago) "enjoys a godlike sense of power" 7 of 12 Honigmann (Iago) "excels in short term tactics not in long term strategy" 8 of 12 Honigmann It is Iago's inability to love which perpetuates his demise "Emilia's love (of Desdemona) is Iago's undoing 9 of 12 Leavis "Othello dies belonging to the world of action in which his true part lay" 10 of 12 Leavis Othello's suicide "is a superb coup de theatre" (french term meaning sudden dramatic turn of events) which arguable makes the play ever so more tragic 11 of 12 Leavis "The now noble othello is now seen as tragically pathetic, and sees himself as pathetic too" 12 of 12
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