Othello

Othello

1. Race

2. Jealousy

3. Gender

4. Sex

   • an old black ram /is tupping your white ewe.
   • In Venice they do let God see the pranks/they dare not show their husbands(3;3)
     • AO3: Venetian women - v.promiscuous and its expected that they cheat on their husbands
     • AO4: Go-Between - Marian disregards the omnipotent 'God'//performs her 'adulterous acts' in private away from her husband??
     • AO2/3: religious imagery// women's subjagation comes from here
     • AO2: sound analysis - whisper sounds from the repeated 'h' sound make the conversation more hushed and private

5. Manipulation

6. Marriage

   • If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever/He's married (1;2)
     • 2; I's view on marriage = violent takeover of an enemy
   • the purchase made, the fruits are to ensue (2;3)
     • AO2: 'purchase' very degrading way to view marriage, as if Des was for sale and is now in his possesion
     • AO4: R+J - Prince and Lord Capulet discuss a marriage to Juliet as a business transaction
     • AO3: 16th century

7. Warfare

8. Hate

9. Identity

10. Desdemona

    • Innocence
      • she had a song of willow
        • child-like memory - acceptance of death with a song
      • shroud me inn one of those same sheets
        • wedding sheets - death - white- purity and innocence in death
      • due to the moor my Lord
        • Des displays decisive power against patriarchy
      • O, that's an honest fellow
        • oblivious to Iago's actions - too innocent
      • for thy solicitor would rather die
        • unaware of the effect on her words - ironic -Iago's manipulation
      • a maiden never bold/ of spirit so stiil and quiet
        • Brabantio describes Des as submissive and pure5
    • Loyalty
      • my lord
        • higher up than her; worship
      • wrap me in my wedding sheets
        • loyalty to her marriage; pure and innocent
      • no by my life and soul
        • swears her life to it; upmost loyalty
      • o banish me
        • wants to please him for a sin she has not committed
      • i will not stay to offend you
        • condemns herself; wants the best for him
      • she'll deceive you as she done me
        • betrayed her father
      • else she'll betray more men
        • has hurt Othello 'more'; seen as unaithful
      • I do perceive a divided duty
        • tries to split loyalty between two; loyalty should automatically transfer from father to husband
      • devour up my discourse
        • has easily been led away from her father
    • Naive
      • o that's an honest fellow! (1;3)
        • Des believes Iago is honest
      • my noble Moor is true of mind and made of no such baseness as jealous (3;4)
        • doesn't realise Othello's jealous tendencies
      • O good Iago...good friend(4;2)
      • Am I that name, Iago(4;2)
        • trusts and confides in Iago
      • Why , then, tomorrow night, or Tuesday morn, on Tuesday noon or night, on Wednesday morn (3;3)
        • knows that Othello does not plan on meeting Cassio but plans to pursue him until he agrees
      • Alas, he is betrayed, and I undone
        • knows that Othello will not believe her w/o Cassio's testimony

11. Othello

    • passionate
      • a murder, which I thought a sacrifice
      • I that am cruel am yet merciful
      • Othello's occupation's gone
      • one who loved not wisely, but too well
      • And when I love thee not. Chaos is come again
    • strong-willed

12. CASSIO