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Othello essay plan
- Honour/Morality
- honour:- respect, reputation
- Othello's loss of honour - Othello's
reputation is ruined when he slaps his
wife, Desdemona in public
- Iago gets Cassio drunk
- humiliates himself
- indicates the importance of
reputation (Act 2 Scene 3)
- Appearance versus Reality
- Deception
- Desdemona deceived her father -
women cannot be trusted
- Iago implants the notion
- Othello is deceived by Iago and
this leads to Desdemona's Death
- Deceit
- Iago is a deceitful character
- Prejudice
- Racial
- Othello is seen as an outsider
- Animals are symbolic
- Gender - Objectifying women [women are seen
as objects ('Zounds, sir, you're robbed') ('You
have lost half your soul'-men's - father's or
husband's-property)]
- Misogyny-Desdemona represents
women-loyalty/<dis>honesty/sin