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AO3 Flashcards

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Kermode - Iago’s character

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“Iago is probably his most disgusted and disgusting character”

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Kermode - Iago’s language

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“lexical resourcefulness”

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Kermode - Cassio

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“a touch of the libertine”

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Kermode - Iago’s deception

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“Iago’s honesty, a conviction of which in the other character is now essential to his design”

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Bradley - Othello’s jealousy

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“Such jealousy as Othello’s convert human nature into chaos, and liberates the beast in man”

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Bradley - Othello’s tradegy

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“His whole nature was indisposed to jealousy, and yet he was unusually open to deception”

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Bradley - Othello’s nature

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“His is quite free of introspection, and is not given to reflection”

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Bradley - Othello’s love

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“There is no love … more steeped in imagination than Othello’s”

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Bradley - Othello’s trust

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“his trust, where he trusts, is absolute. Hesitation is almost impossible to him”

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W.H.Auden - Desdemona

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“Everyone must pity Desdemona, but I cannot bring myelf to like her”

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Atkins - Desdemona’s tradegy

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“The more Desdemona tries to fulfill her role as the dutiful wife the less she is able to defend herself”

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Atkins - D’s naivety

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“element of maivety in Desdemona’s character in frustrating”

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Atkins - D’s loyalty

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“Even unto death Desdemona has remained loyal to her husband and this is the ultimate act of self abnegation”

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Saunders - Desdemona’s obedience

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“mechanical obedience of her actions”

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Saunders - Emilia’s role

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“the voice of truth and moral clarity”

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Saunders - D’s idealism

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“soggy sweetness of D’s naive idealism”

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Blamires - D from O’s perspective

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“she appears in O’s double-vision as both whore and virgin”

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Blamires - D’s death

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“Desdemona killed for being a whore, dies a virgin”

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Taylor - Male concerns

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“Othello is much concerned with male notions of property”

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Taylor - values of Venice

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“The mercantile ethos of Shakespeare’s Venice”

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Taylor - Othello’s view of D

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“The idea that she is his property has come to be the very basis of Othello’s sense of Venetian identity”

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Taylor - Bed and Handkerchief

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“The sheets are stained at last. A copy of the handkerchief has been made after all”

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Burnett - language and power

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“The successful command of language guarantees the possession of power”

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Burnett - O and service

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“a lofty notion of service preoccupies him”

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Burnett - sujectivity of memory and experience

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“it thematises the slipperiness of language … the distorting effects of the imagination … the reliability of narratives coloured by personal experience”

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Draper - Iago’s feelings towards O

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“A contradictory mixture of envy and resentment”

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Draper - Iago and status

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“Inferiority and superiority … are a constant preoccupation of Iago’s”

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Draper - Iago’s language

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“the perverted energy of his language”

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Draper - Othello’s fall

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“the poisoned victim rather than the dominant man of action”

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Draper - O’s manipulation by Iago

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“He has submitted himseld to a kind of psychological castration … an been seduced into a deep emotional initimacy which should have been reserved for another relationship”

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Walker - Cassio

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Cassio symbolises the impishness of youth, the sauve and debonair

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Kermode - Cassio

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Extreme of doting admiration

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Renaissance attitude to women - Traub

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Mysoginistic discourse of the Renaissance

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Bradley - Cassio

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Something very loveable about Cassio

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Wilson - Othello

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Othello music

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Holderness - Othello’s speech

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Charned romantic eloquence

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