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OTHELLO

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OTHELLO

Order/Disorder
- Reason and Unreason
  - RACE
    - unscientific superstition of the hankerchief - a magic token?
    - unnatural/outrageous marriage- use of black magic assumed?
      - those charms (365)
    - these moors are changeable in their wills
  - This would not be believed in Venice (339)
  - light and dark (360)/day and night
  - This cannot be, by no assay of reason (216)
- Turks: disorder
  - (268) Cassio & Montano brawl
  - Othello turns himself to the Turk (396)
    - Othello and Ottomite
- This is Venice; my house is not a grange. (204)
Reality and Appearance
- Honesty
  - dramatic irony - Iago's soliloquies
  - patronizing to social inferior -rankles Iago
    - Cassio to clown 3.1
    - 281,282
  - Faithfulness vs frankness
    - Iago and Montano 266
    - Iago of Cassio (272)
      - advice to Cassio (276)
      - Iago of Cassio to Othello (288) plays on ambiguity
    - Desdemona of Cassio (285)
    - Othello of Iago (298,383)
  - WOMEN (296,305)
    - chastity
    - Desdemona: symbolic of honesty
  - perceptions of honesty
    - To be direct and honest is not safe (305)
    - whip me such honest knaves!
- men should be what they seem 290
- I am not what I am. (201)
Us/Them schizophrenia
- schizophrenia employed by Iago
- Iago and Montano (Cassio drunk)
- Iago and Othello (291) - between you and me!
- Iago and Lodovico (340)
- Race
- Iago and Cassio
  - sharing private jokes of a prostitute's lofty aspirations (332)
Control and Loss of Control
- male honour in safeguarding his property
- self-control
Gender stereotypes and conventions
- played on by Iago
- courtly love
  - idealised female ostensibly elevated
  - subservient male
    - dominance in the bedroom (248)
      - educating the male (284)
      - traditional gender roles (335)
    - our captain's captain (2.1)
    - Othello 252, 275
    - her appetite shall play the god (276)
    - Cassio 283
  - refined
- Females
  - physicalized by Iago
    - one motive is to snare a man
    - powerful, cunning
    - super-subtle Venetian (237)
      - Othello: Subtle whore (342)
        I took you for that cunning whore of Venice (348)
    - lascivious APPETITE (255) - a stereotype EASILY BELIEVED!
      - Iago is very certain (258)
      - object of FEAR (psychological power?)
        ingrained into the male psyche
        Uncontrollable appetite (298)
        Emilia: It is their husbands' faults 361 (lambasting the male double standard)
      - I do not distinctly speak of her (296) - deduction from accepted general truth
    - Iago vs Cassio
  - object of desire
    - passion (APPETITE)
    - beauty and the moral ideal (245)
      - fair devil (312)
      - agony and disbelief: a fair woman! (335-6)
      - a claim of innocence (347)
      - the senses aches at thee (346)
  - male property
    - extension of male property - the businesslike tone at the fringes?
    - Brabantio: "thief!"
    - Iago: "Done my office"
      - leapt into my seat (258)
    - jewel (227,382)
  - Female Reputation
    - obedience (226,287,300,339,386)
      - so speaking as I think, I die
    - chastity
      - lost by defection, errant sexual behaviour
        Her name - begrimed (305)
        protectress of her honour (326)
      - swears to her honesty by religion (347)
      - compare with Bianca
  - subservient to males- MALE DOMINATED WORLD
    - "thee" - Cassio and Othello
    - desdemona & Iago banter (2.1)
    - Bianca overwhelmed (370)
    - Emilia: give me leave (385)
- Males
  - brotherhood and loyalty (272,
    - Iago in his warning to othello: For too much loving you (295)
      - Cassio's my worthy friend (296)
        Iago of Cassio (271)
        advice to Cassio 276
    - automatically assumed
    - Iago's defense of Emilia's castigation of the male fraternity (351)
    - Tush, never tell me! - Rod to I
  - Male Honour/ reputation (272)
    - protecting property
      - manly honour lost with the lost of sexual possession: "Othello's Occupation's gone."
      - Loss of female/betrayal: the one thing his reputation cannot stomach (345-46)
    - public reputation vs private role distinct
      - Othello
        manage private and domestic quarrel? (270)
        What? Strike his wife? (341)
        light-winged toys (232)
        Private weakness: I takes joy in describing his epilepsy(328)
      - Cassio
        "a knave teach me my duty?" 266
        provocation: tainting his discipline (257)
        drinking: 'my weakness'vs courtesy (261)
        you must not think I am drunk. (264-5)
        Montano: You're drunk. 266
        Chasing after Bianca - protect his reputation (335)
      - sense of place and duty 268
    - hold their honours at a wary distance (262)
      - to say a soldier lies - tis stabbing
    - Iago:Easily won and lost, ordinary? (273)
    - GOOD COMPORTMENT and self-control of his passions
      - Montano (269)
        unlace your reputation (269)
      - Cassio's indiscretion (273)
      - the male vir - manliness and valour
        I to O: 305-6, 329-30
        othello claims to be free of jealousy (293-94) + D's ironic statment (314)
        spleen - incongruous with a man
        whom passion could not shake? (340)
        I to Rod: 354
        the sword symbol (389)
  - sexual jealousy/fear of stolen property INGRAINED IN THE MALE MIND!!
    - Iago's fear: Cassio, Othello (259, 351) peevish jealousy (362)
    - competitive, aggressive
      - Blame the male or the female?
        D: victim of a male competitor? (335)
        Why Desdemona dies (5.2)
        Protecting men from women? (372)
        religious duty?
        dishonour to Othello's reputation
        protect the victim or his male competitors? Highly contradictory
        The weak position of women in society - endless reasons to punish a woman
        381: commend me to my kind lord (Kind-behaving as a husband should)
        Othello: a victim?
        this most unfortunate man (392)
        fallen in the practice of a damned slave
        Emilia: Murderer!
        ALL IN HONOUR
        Why Othello Kills HImself
        loss of honour
        no more dignity to wield a sword
        loss of valuable property
        jewel (382)
        base Indian
        loved too well, being wrought (395)
    - I to O: I confess (291)
    - she did deceive her father...(295)
- The helplessness of women - no available justice
  - females vulnerable to males' sexual appetite: "magic token" to ensure a man's fidelity?
    - Forsaken: Willow song
  - Emilia's cynicism
    - WE are but food (319)
    - finally speaks up against the imbalance
      - PSYCHOLOGICAL POWER OF THE MARTYR -passive, but powerful (384)
      - disobedience and speaking up in a male world (see other nodes)
  - men are not gods - reasonable expectations (321)
    - treating women as on their wedding day
      - pathetic attempt: 349 lay my wedding sheets..
    - godly command of himself
  - they can only pray: Heaven keep the monster from Othello's mind! (322)
    - Heaven have mercy on me (375)
  - I must be circumstanced! (324) - even Bianca, seemingly independent
    - Cassio has no intention of marriage (332)
      - beggarly divorcement (352)
    - female threat: no more supper! (334)
      - affections and sexual favours
  - only response is incomprehension
Class tension and sensitivities
- good manners and breeding (247)
  - 2.1 -99
  - Iago: construed as lust and lechery (255, 256)
  - Cassio vs Iago (260)
    - Iago: crude, physical Cassio: polite, refined,courtly but ostensibly agreeing with Iago 
- social resentment
  - Cassio - a knave (255)
- the song of the farmer (264)
- Clown and Cassio (280)
- The marriage?
Rank
- Cypriates and Venetians: sensitivities of a garrison town
- the lieutenant is to be saved before the ensign (264)
- service
  - automatically assumed based on rank
  - Iago: The curse of service (198)
    - gradation vs preferment

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Beschreibung: Mindmap am OTHELLO, erstellt von joy peh am 24/03/2015.
Erstellt von: joy peh · Mär 2015
Aktualisiert: 26 Sep 2018
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