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AO5 Othello
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- 1DesdemonaDesdemona is a goddess and a saint, a representative of goodness and purity, whose self control and innocence are praiseworthy - Some critics
- 2DesdemonaWe see Desdemona lose her energy, vitality, and courage for living to become fearful and passive. She is punished by a patriarchal society - Feminists
- 3IagoIago's role is subordinate and merely ancillary - F.R.Leavis
- 4OthelloOthello has a propensity for jealousy and a weak character; ‘the stuff of which he is made begins at once to deteriorate and show itself unfit’ once he is married - F.R.Leavis
- 5DesdemonaShe not only foreshadows her death but also expresses an unconscious desire for it - Garner
- 6Desdemonatoo knowing, too independent’ that ‘the shadow of sexual frailty hovers over her throughout the play - Jardine
- 7DesdemonaShe accepts her culture’s dictum that she must be obedient to males’ and she is ‘self-denying in the extreme’ when she dies - French
- 8IagoIago is still serviceable to us, as an objective correlative of the mindless inventiveness of racist aggression. Iago is still alive and kicking and filling migrants’ letterboxes with excrement. - Germaine Greer
- 9Iago'malice is motiveless' - Gardner
- 10IagoPsychologically Iago is a slighted man, powerfully possessed by hatred against a master who has kept him down, and by envy of a man he despised who has been promoted over him - Neville Coghill
- 11OthelloAristotle's view of a tragic hero
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