Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Othello: Love and Relationships
- Patriarchy
- Women= possessions of men
- Men= obsessed w/ chastity of women
- Morality= legislated by property & belongings
- Richer= could dictate the laws
- Shakespeare inverts social
construct of older men marrying
younger women (?)
- Progression of Love & Relationships
- Othello & Desdemona's love becomes corrupt
- Love= Desdemona's demise
- Iago's façade regarding relationships acts as a
warning of blind trust in the play
- Quotes
- Brabantio
- "O, thou foul thief, where hast
thou stowed my daughter"
- Possession
- Objectification of women
- Social heirarchy
- (A1,S2)
- "Damned as thou art... That weaken motion"
- (A1,S2)
- Spiritual language= lexicon of
discontent caused in
contemporary audience
- Relationship between race & supernatural
- "If she in chains of magic were not bound"
- (A1,S2)
- Possessive nature of men
- Relationship between Bants & O changes
- Professional vs personal relationship questioned
- Roderigo
- "I confess it is my shame to be
so fond, but it is not in my
virtue to amend it"
- (A1,S1)
- Weak character; blind following of emotions=
susceptible to manipulation from Iago
- Iago
- "For that I do suspect... wife for wife"
- (A2,S1)
- His actions= X solely fuelled by
actions of others, but also his own
feelings & connections
- Othello
- "O curse of marriage... Even then this forked
plague is fated to us/ when we do quicken"
- (A3,S3)
- Common mistrust of women
- Forces audience to side with Othello in that Des is cheating
- Illuminates juxtapositions in
men's perceptions of women
- "All kinds of sores and shames... or else dries up"
- (A4,S2)
- Dual metaphor- fountain for heart, heart for love
- Corruptive nature of love
- Heart (love)= vital organ; x live w/o
- Questions blind following of love & price of corrupt love
- Emilia & Desdemona (Women)
- E: "O, who hath done this? D: Nobody. I myself. Farewell"
- D fears lack of love from O
- Importance of love within humanity
- D's response= used to highlight/
convey the common,
contemporary views