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1. Post colonialism

   • Othello damned from start in a patriotic nation
     • Perhaps his wanton 4 high station based on defeating caucasian stereotype of moors
       • Slaves

2. Feminism

   • Female vulnerability and powerlessness @ D's murder
     • Emilia, pro-feminism
       • Betrays patriarchy

3. Marxism

   • Fame and valance of Othello helped him acquire were what buggered him from reality
     • Venice and prostitution to avoid poverty
       • If Othello poor, he would never have had the good life he initially had

4. The visual imagery of 1995 film shows Iago as devil. Covers his hands in soot when speaks of the 'Divinity of Hell' and is seen against dark background, with a fire burning nearby, on several occasions

   • Suggests homoerotic love. He embraces Othello @ "I am your own forever" and has tears. When Iago wounded he crawls to the bed to lie at his dead general's feet and dies

5. Compare Othello's interrogation of Desdemona to the senators interrogation of Othello in act 1 scene 3

   • How they are unequal now

6. 1981 BBC TV

   • Desdemona strong sense of foreboding her death in act IV scene 3
     • Skull at her dressing table
       • Death's head in Elizabethan England was symbolic for Mortality, Melancholy, sexual adventures and prostitution

7. Ophelia, like Barbary goes mad when Hamlet rejects her

   • Opehlia drowns, falling off a willow tree
     • Desdemona sings of a willow tree
     • Love and madness are linked in renaissance drama

8. Act V scene 1, Othello language v violent and bloody

   • Othello sounds like a villain in revenge tragedy
     • Audience may not sympathise w him

9. The Taming of the Shrew

   • 2 daughter, Bianca and Katherine
     • Bianca conniving
     • Katherine is a 'scold'
       • Married against will

10. Macbeth spurned into villainy by his wife and ambition

    • Faustus makes a pact with the devil

11. Cyprus

    • Aphrodite
      • Island of love
        • Irony

12. Iago calls Othello devil

    • Common belief that blacks were evil

13. Physical defect = evil

    • Geillis Vaccination scar deemed her a witch

14. Venice was famous for prostitution in the jacobean era

    • Bianca name meaning white
      • She is unlike other prostitutes and has a pure heart

15. Machiavellian villain

    • Scheming, manipulative, and amoral
      • Iago

16. Suicide is regarded a sin in Christianity

    • Greeks and Romans deemed it heroic, brave and sacrificial
      • Suicide was to stop suffering

17. Women were the possessions of their fathers, passed onto their husbands

    • Subservient, obedient, objectified
      • Women could not possess their father's inheritance