othello

othello

1. race

   • othello's self doubt
     • little blessed with the soft phrase of speech
       • contradicton
     • not a "curled darling"
   • roderigo- thick lips
     • unsophisticated
   • not officially defined
   • "stranger"- not one of us, different, doesn't belong, outsider

2. jealousy

   • iago of cassio
     • educated, arithmetician, intellectual
       • elegant, noble

3. order/chaos

4. honour/honesty vs falsity

   • vivid images that aren't real
     • "now will i question him of bianca
   • othello misinterprets what he sees

5. class

   • iago is a working class soldier
     • ruffian, rough
     • pleasure of creating chaos
       • enjoys scheming
         • never appears in his schemes
           • "this is thy work"- work of art, spectacle

6. womens rights

   • "leaped into my seat"
     • animal figure

7. reputation/private

8. nation/place

9. night and day

   • scenes happen in the dark
     • confusion

10. love/hate

    • othello and desdemona's relationship is constantly interrupted
      • war/love
        • obsessed with love
        • no sex/never a war
        • cyprus- wilderness, exposes what was underneath
          • constrast to civilised venice
            • characters were presented as sophisticated
          • actual war- at war with themselves
      • instability
    • romance