Zusammenfassung der Ressource
'Othello' - opposing
ideas and images
- play take place
in Venice
- Moves to Cyprus
- 3 out of 5 acts take
place at night
- night is full of
danger
- darkness and light
- night covers the
truth
- othello's earlier
speeches given in light
- later they take
place in darkness
- sense of
openess
- Iago's activities
associated with night
- Iago associated with Devil
- later Othello associated
with the devil
- angel and
devil
- angel/devil contrast
shows Iago's success
- Othello begins to call
Desdemona a devil
- Desdemona
associated with
anger
- deception
- heaven and hell
- through Iago's evil
Othello descends
into hell
- "chaos is come
again"
- Othello begins in love
- association
with 'heaven'
- black and white
- black associated
with the devil
- Shakespeare
reverses the idea
- Desdemona
- White
- associated
with purity
- Iago wants to
corrupt this
- Othello
- Iago's reference to
Othello's blackness
- racist
- sexual stereotypes