othello

othello

1. context

2. characters

   • othello
     • "Moor"
       • an african invader
       • viewed as "the other" by nearly everyone that he meets
         • Edward Said
     • an old black ram
       • animalistic, reduced from his general status
     • his death is his christian repentance
       • as a marisco Othello forced himself to convert so he could fit in
         • a victim of colonial mimicry
           • Homi Bhabha
     • Othello Music is replaced with Iago's Discordance
       • wilson Knight
     • transformation
       • Loving Husband to Uxoricide
       • Intelligent to simple-minded
         • F.R.Leavis
   • desdemona
     • My noble father To you I am bound for life and education;
     • Whate'er you be, I am obedient.
     • My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him,
     • That there be women do abuse their husbands In such gross kind?
     • Whore- most common word
   • Iago
     • manipulatative
       • "Othello's tragedy but Iago's play"
         • iago ultimately led Othello to his demise
           • Blueprint to kill a war god
         • Harold Bloom
       • manipulated Roderigo into giving him money
     • Iago is a Spanish Character
       • The Spanish fought the Moors and ultimately killed him
     • Ensign
       • Formally declares war
     • 'O, beware my lord of jealousy./It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on.
   • cassio
     • Their mortal natures, letting go safely by The divine Desdemona.
     • Iago hath direction what to do; But, notwithstanding, with my personal eye Will I look to't
     • O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial
   • roderigo
     • refered to as a gull (idiot)
     • trusts Iago as he promised to get desdemona to date him
     • Acts as Iago's puppet
     • Quotes
       • ''I take it much unkindly that thou, Iago, who hast my purse as if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.'' A1 S1
       • It is silliness to live, when to live is torment, and we have a prescription to die when death is our physician.' A1 S3
       • I do not find that thou dealest justly with me. A4 S2
       • O damn'd Iago! O inhuman dog! A5 S1
   • Brabantio
     • dies of heartbreak
     • What tell'st thou me of robbing? this is Venice; My house is not a grange.
     • Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her... Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals
     • Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceived her father, and may thee.

3. themes

   • love and sex
   • race
   • gender
   • Domestic Tragedy
   • Jealousy
     • Beware my lord, of jealousy for its the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on
     • Husbands break out in peevish jealousies
     • Daily beauty in his life/That makes me ugly
     • They are not jealous for the cause/ But jealous for they're jealous

4. 5 Ms

   • marianismo
   • marisco