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Mind Map by Tamsin Hackett, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Tamsin Hackett
over 8 years ago
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Othello: Language,
Form, Structure
- Imagery
- Colour - darkness etc.
- Animal - ram/ewe,
Othello uses it more
as he becomes more
like Iago
- Disease/poison - associated with
corruption, Iago's manipulation
- Hell - Iago and his deception, racial slur
- Colour - darkness etc.
- Irony
- Creates suspense and adds interest
- Dramatic - audience
knows Desdemona is
innocent throughout
- Verbal - 'Honest Iago', Iago's warning of
jealousy when those are his intentions
- Dramatic - audience
knows Desdemona is
innocent throughout
- Cassio wanted dead -
only one not murdered
- Dramatic irony makes
audience feel a part of the play
- Creates suspense and adds interest
- Writing Style
- Mostly iambic pentameter/blank
verse - used by noble characters
- Characters lower on
social scale - prose
- Othello's blank verse establishes
heroism, authority, intelligence
- Iago slips between prose and verse -
adapts to different audiences/purposes
- Mostly iambic pentameter/blank
verse - used by noble characters
- Repetition
- Othello's langauge repetition
to emphasis message
- Repetition of key themes
- Builds suspense e.g.
before/after Desdemona death
- Othello's langauge repetition
to emphasis message
- Opposites
- Black/white - Othello/Desdemona
linked with evil/good
- Good/evil - perceived evil of Othello as
outsider, goodness of Desdemona etc,
Othello see self as 'honourable murderer'
- Innocence/experience -
Desdemona/Emilia view of
fidelity, naive characters/Iago
- Light/dark - bad things done in the dark 'put out the
light', final murders, drunken brawl etc. Light - Des' purity
- Appearance/reality - Iago, Desdemona
- Black/white - Othello/Desdemona
linked with evil/good
- Personification
- For jealousy - 'green eyed monser'
- To add to drama and emphasise themes
- For jealousy - 'green eyed monser'
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