CRITICAL READINGS / THEORIES

Question 1

Sigmund Freud’s theory of brain, divides in human personality

Answer 1

id = instant allowance to physical needs and urges

superego = social rules + morals, what is right & what is wrong

ego = rational, realistic part of the brain, balancing demand of id & superego

Question 2

H. Vogt & R. Marti’s post colonial claim

Answer 2

‘white Caucasian societies adhering an underlying wish to preserve it’s hegemony’.

Question 3

Peter Sellars claim

Answer 3

‘people abandon their whole belief system - othello does this because of his pride’

Question 4

Ben Okri’s hew historic claim

Answer 4

‘othello didn’t begin as a play about race, history has made it one’

Question 5

V. M Vaughn new historic claim

Answer 5

‘Racial issues became more important over time. Shakespeare isn’t emphasising Othello’s blackness, later interpretations do.’

Question 6

Sigmund Freud Theory of brain explanation

Answer 6

Three fundamental structures: the id, ego and superego. Conflicts among these three structures, and our efforts to find balance among what each of them “desires,” determines how we behave and approach the world.

Question 7

Janowski’s feminist statement regarding Bianca

Answer 7

Bianca’s character is unlabelled and not categorised under an identity or label which enhances her difference and exoticness to venetian normality and against the male preference to maintain their power