Control Flashcards
main argument
control is only effective when masked
jealousy is the ultimate destructive force
the patriarchy within the Venetian society allows the play’s plot to unfold
1st point argument
masked by love
jealousy is symptomatic of other insecurities
gender roles played on to deceive
2nd point
masked by reputation and manipulation
jealousy is the product of society\jealosy is resultant/leads to a of a bad reputation
women objectified and materialised as a means of manipulation
3rd point
masked by gender stereotypes
jealousy blurs the truth/jealousy is the product of bad reputation
control of the plot is masked by gender stereotypes
Othello: “oh this curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetite”
- control by love
-gender stereotypes
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Othello’s control of Desdemona through his love/gender sterotype
analysis:
- women stereotypes of being weak
-‘creatures’ animalistic and uncontrollable and consistently hungry for more of this freewill
This vulgarity is out of character.
Alliteration “c”- Perhaps, this is to support a feeling of angry cursing since it is a hard sound.
- EXTENT OF MAKLE CONTORL IN MARRIGE
FANTASIES ABOUT MALE CONTORL
ELIZABETHEN FEAR OF FEMALE SEXUAL FREEDOM
“marry to- come captain will you go?”
-control masked by deception
-jealousy is symptomatic of other insecurities
-jealousy blurs truth
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“Oh, beware my lord of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon”
-jealosy
-control masked by manipulation and reputation
metaphor
-It is ironic because it is a true statement delivered under entirely false pretenses
-grene eyed monster- animalistic imagery of terror and fear
-eyed: it is not blind, jealousy is profound and clear yet it is orncnic as it then mocks the meat it feeds upon hence showing it could blind them.
aka- jealousy is so obvious to others and not to the character
meat- that is what a person is reduced to in the eyes of jealousy. it drives to insanity and hence ruins your reputation so therefore it make life not worth living and you will be known as ‘meat’
-feeds upon- the soul of the human, the human desire is what feeds jealousy and it cannot be controlled.
“good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls”
-contorl by reputation nd manipulation
-iago tells Othello this out of jealousy perhaps for his good reputation and is aware he needs to destroy it in order for his to rise
-jealosy product of society
- reputation as wealth and something treasurable and desirable
-iago doe this to influxes Othello into thinking reputation should be his main concern and to then act further upon his subtle control of destructing Desdemona and Othello’s relationship - good name: significant to the audience, heaven and hell profound impressions
-souls is what goes to Havana is the decider, if you will continue to be good in the life after this then maintain your reputation
SHOWN THIS IS MANIPULATION AS IAGO HAD PREVIOUSLY SAID “REPUTATION IS AN IDEL AND MOST FALSE IMPRESSION” - changes methods of control for each character accordingly
“away at once with love or jealousy”
-contorl by love
-jealosy symptomatic of insecurities
-gender: man to make desicisons
“my wife must move for Cassio to her mistress, I’ll set her on”
-iago utilising the preconception of women resembling innocence
-him direction emelia- shows the gender heirachry and marital expectation
-control is masked by society’s expectations of women/pateriarchy
“look to your house, your daughter, and your bags!”
-gender stereotypes as control
-women materialised as manipulation (to get what iago wants, this reaction of of Brabantio)
Desdemona as a transportable object in society
-casual correlation of similar possessions implies what iago thinks about hierarchy of women
-exclamation elevtates control over women
daughter in the middle: devia6ion from branatio’s productivity and become transpoartbable- she’s become an object for contorl
“and it is thought abroad, that ‘twixt my sheets he has done my office”
-jelaosy as symptomatic of other insecurities
- done my office: taken my position, proiffesional diction to describe a domestic identity
- both things he can’t Bear to loose - not to a ‘racial outsider’
“I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear”
“I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise”
- contorl through genre roles
-gender roles played on to deceive (she won’t she who she truly is as thats what’s expected of her, its her allowed disguise)
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