AO5 Othello

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Flashcards on AO5 Othello, created by Mollyjanesmith on 24/03/2015.
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Desdemona Desdemona is a goddess and a saint, a representative of goodness and purity, whose self control and innocence are praiseworthy - Some critics
Desdemona We see Desdemona lose her energy, vitality, and courage for living to become fearful and passive. She is punished by a patriarchal society - Feminists
Iago Iago's role is subordinate and merely ancillary - F.R.Leavis
Othello Othello has a propensity for jealousy and a weak character; ‘the stuff of which he is made begins at once to deteriorate and show itself unfit’ once he is married - F.R.Leavis
Desdemona She not only foreshadows her death but also expresses an unconscious desire for it - Garner
Desdemona too knowing, too independent’ that ‘the shadow of sexual frailty hovers over her throughout the play - Jardine
Desdemona She accepts her culture’s dictum that she must be obedient to males’ and she is ‘self-denying in the extreme’ when she dies - French
Iago Iago is still serviceable to us, as an objective correlative of the mindless inventiveness of racist aggression. Iago is still alive and kicking and filling migrants’ letterboxes with excrement. - Germaine Greer
Iago 'malice is motiveless' - Gardner
Iago Psychologically Iago is a slighted man, powerfully possessed by hatred against a master who has kept him down, and by envy of a man he despised who has been promoted over him - Neville Coghill
Othello Aristotle's view of a tragic hero
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