Critical theory- Themes

Question 1

‘The perfection of women is to be characterless’ What theme?

Answer 1

Women

Question 2

‘The perfection of women is to be characterless’ Who said it?

Answer 2

Coleridge

Question 3

‘Fears of racial and sexual differences characterise Elizabethan and Jacobean culture’ What themes?

Answer 3

Race and Women

Question 4

‘Fears of racial and sexual differences characterise Elizabethan and Jacobean culture’ Who said it?

Answer 4

Newman

Question 5

Slights said about Race

Answer 5

‘Plays on conventions that positions people of colour firmly below white Europeans, and non-Christians below Christians’

Question 6

‘Embodies a relationship based on pity. leaving their love questionable at best.’ What quote shows this?

Answer 6

‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed and I did pity them’

Question 7

‘Embodies a relationship based on pity. leaving their love questionable at best.’ Who said this?

Answer 7

Arthos

Question 8

‘Embodies a relationship based on pity. leaving their love questionable at best.’ What theme is presented in this critical theory?

Answer 8

Marriage

Question 9

What did Marsh say about Othello’s and Desdemona’s marriage and love?

Answer 9

‘His love for Desdemona has overtones of medieval courtly love where the woman’s purity is worshipped and idolized’

Question 10

‘Both are outsiders, Othello as a moor, Iago as a malcontent with a grudge against
privilege’ What theme is presented here?

Answer 10

Identity

Question 11

‘Both are outsiders, Othello as a moor, Iago as a malcontent with a grudge against
privilege’ Who said it?

Answer 11

Honigman

Question 12

‘Iago’s manipulation depends on Othello’s own prejudice against his blackness’ What theme is presented here?

Answer 12

Identity

Question 13

‘Iago’s manipulation depends on Othello’s own prejudice against his blackness’ Who said it?

Answer 13

Newman

Question 14

What does Coleridge say about Othello’s jealousy?

Answer 14

‘Othello does not kill Desdemona in jealousy, but in a conviction forced upon him by the almost superhuman art of Iago’

Question 15

‘no nation in the world is so subject to jealousy; for they will rather lose their lives,
than put up any disgrace on the behalf of their women’ What theme is presented here?

Answer 15

Jealousy

Question 16

‘no nation in the world is so subject to jealousy; for they will rather lose their lives,
than put up any disgrace on the behalf of their women’ Who said it?

Answer 16

Africanus

Question 17

What did Johnson say about justice in Othello ?

Answer 17

‘Warning to ladies to not run of with blackamoors’

Question 18

Who describes Desdemona’s death as ‘male centric justice’?

Answer 18

Jardine

Question 19

Who calls Othello ‘A tragedy of perception’?

Answer 19

Hazlitt

Question 20

‘Iago keeps the reality of his character hidden from everyone but the audience’ Who says it?

Answer 20

Greenblatt

Question 21

‘Iago keeps the reality of his character hidden from everyone but the audience’ What theme is presented in this critical theory?

Answer 21

Appearence vs reality

Question 22

Who says Cassio has been given the role of lieutenant because of his reputation rather than experience?

Answer 22

Little

Question 23

‘Othello is a black man trapped within a white view of moors’ What theme is presented here?

Answer 23

Power of stereotyping

Question 24

‘Othello is a black man trapped within a white view of moors’ Who said it?

Answer 24

Loomba

Question 25

‘Venice was a place for female deviance, but also a hub of international trade’ What theme is presented here?

Answer 25

Setting

Question 26

‘Venice was a place for female deviance, but also a hub of international trade’ Who said it?

Answer 26

Loomba