Critical theory- Themes Flashcards
‘The perfection of women is to be characterless’ What theme?
Women
‘The perfection of women is to be characterless’ Who said it?
Coleridge
‘Fears of racial and sexual differences characterise Elizabethan and Jacobean culture’ What themes?
Race and Women
‘Fears of racial and sexual differences characterise Elizabethan and Jacobean culture’ Who said it?
Newman
Slights said about Race
‘Plays on conventions that positions people of colour firmly below white Europeans, and non-Christians below Christians’
‘Embodies a relationship based on pity. leaving their love questionable at best.’ What quote shows this?
‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed and I did pity them’
‘Embodies a relationship based on pity. leaving their love questionable at best.’ Who said this?
Arthos
‘Embodies a relationship based on pity. leaving their love questionable at best.’ What theme is presented in this critical theory?
Marriage
What did Marsh say about Othello’s and Desdemona’s marriage and love?
‘His love for Desdemona has overtones of medieval courtly love where the woman’s purity is worshipped and idolized’
‘Both are outsiders, Othello as a moor, Iago as a malcontent with a grudge against
privilege’ What theme is presented here?
Identity
‘Both are outsiders, Othello as a moor, Iago as a malcontent with a grudge against
privilege’ Who said it?
Honigman
‘Iago’s manipulation depends on Othello’s own prejudice against his blackness’ What theme is presented here?
Identity
‘Iago’s manipulation depends on Othello’s own prejudice against his blackness’ Who said it?
Newman
What does Coleridge say about Othello’s jealousy?
‘Othello does not kill Desdemona in jealousy, but in a conviction forced upon him by the almost superhuman art of Iago’
‘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?
Jealousy
‘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?
Africanus
What did Johnson say about justice in Othello ?
‘Warning to ladies to not run of with blackamoors’
Who describes Desdemona’s death as ‘male centric justice’?
Jardine
Who calls Othello ‘A tragedy of perception’?
Hazlitt
‘Iago keeps the reality of his character hidden from everyone but the audience’ Who says it?
Greenblatt
‘Iago keeps the reality of his character hidden from everyone but the audience’ What theme is presented in this critical theory?
Appearence vs reality
Who says Cassio has been given the role of lieutenant because of his reputation rather than experience?
Little
‘Othello is a black man trapped within a white view of moors’ What theme is presented here?
Power of stereotyping
‘Othello is a black man trapped within a white view of moors’ Who said it?
Loomba
‘Venice was a place for female deviance, but also a hub of international trade’ What theme is presented here?
Setting
‘Venice was a place for female deviance, but also a hub of international trade’ Who said it?
Loomba
