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Madness: Othello Quotes
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- 1Samuel Johnson’s famous 1765 ‘Preface to Shakespeare’Othello’s “fiery openness” vs. Iago’s “cool malignity”
- Iago is evil, not mad - 2"Falls in a trance" "an epilepsy"- the stage directions characterise it objectively as a trance (a lethargy of the body) whereas Iago diagnoses the trance as an 'epilepsy' (violent paroxysms)
- as a contemporary audience would know 'conventions of a mad person', as superior diagnosticians they would foil Iago - 3"this is his second fit"- an audience has no reason to believe Iago that this is Othello's second fit
- 4“Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse/ Of sun and moon”- Othello's madness collapses as fleetingly as the physical geography of anger, seconds after murdering Desdemona he anticlimactically muses
- 5“Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse/ Of sun and moon”- Othello's madness collapses as fleetingly as the physical geography of anger, seconds after murdering Desdemona this is what he anticlimactically muses
- makes an appeal to the astrological realm which is a self-rebuke grappling with the necessity of astrological reassertion of power where bodily autonomy has descended into imbalance
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- ENGLISH UNIVERSITY (Shakespeare) Flashcards on Madness: Othello Quotes, created by Sophie Pereira on 24/09/2019.
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