Othello

Othello

1. Sight v. Thinking

   • Occular Proof

2. Betrayal

   • "All, all cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak."

3. Relationships with the state and social/political position

   • "My very noble and approved good masters" He uses words, his status and titles to work his way through the world
     • "My parts, my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly"

4. Jealousy

   • "for mine own gain"
     • "for my sport and profit"
   • "I do suspect the lusty moor hath leaped into my seat"

5. Love

   • "Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee; and when I love thee not chaos is come again"

6. Beastial imagery and the Devil's Tango

   • Racial Stereotypes and Racism
     • He hates the moor "I hate the moor"
   • "To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor"
   • "an old black ram is tupping your white ewe"
   • "Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs
   • "a barbary horse" an african horse

7. Darkness v. lightness

   • Hellish v. Heavenly imagery
     • "Yet she wished thast heaven had made her such a man"
       • "If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself"

8. Change

   • Setting safe - dangerous

9. Sexism & Bigotry

   • She uses her keen sense of her 'role' as a woman and the rules that the partiarchy "You are the lord of duty; I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband"
     • "I won his daughter"
   • "Their wives have sense like them"

10. Reputation

11. Loyalty

    • "And he's indicted fasely"

12. Key

    • Desdemona
    • Othello
    • Iago
    • Emelia
    • Everyone

13. Deceit v. honesty

    • "I am not what I am"
      • "A man he is of honesty and trust" -said by Othello about Iago
        • "Honest Iago"- said by f*cking everyone
    • "If thou love me, Show me thy thought"- said to Iago because he's being led on
    • "The moor already changes with my poison"