Critical views Flashcards
Machiavellian quote
Fear/love
‘Better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both’
Honigmann
About Iago
‘He enjoys a godlike sense of power
‘Iago has too many motives… the difficuty is that he assigns so many’
Samuel Johnson
About Iago
‘he is from the first scene tot he last hated and despised’
W.H. Auden
About Iago
‘a practical joker of peculiarly appalling kind’
Harewood
About Othello
‘Othello’s love for Desdemona is a powerful, all-consuming emotion. It’s unlikely he’s ever felt anything like it before’
Patrick Stewart
Othello and Desdemona relationship
‘Desdemona helps to remove the chaos from his life’
T Rhymer
Desdemona’s marriage
‘Desdemona is a fool for marrying a blackmoor’
Honigman
Desdemona
‘Desdemona is very young and childlike’
M French
Desdemona
‘In spite of her masculine assertiveness in choosing her own husband, Desdemona accepts her culture’s dictum that she must be obedient to males’
B.J. Paris
Roderigo
‘Roderigo is a fool’
Seghal
Jealousy
‘Jealousy is exhausting it’s a hungry emotion and must be satisfied’
Leech
Tragedy
‘The most poignant tragedy of human life is the work of human blindness’
‘again and again men do kill the thing they love’
Fish
Love
‘Romantic love is an obsession, you lose your sense of self, distort reality’
Castan
Tragedy
‘the agonizing silences of Shakespear’s tragedies’
‘are there reasons for the intolerable suffering?’
‘genre of uncompensated suffering’
FR Leavis
Othello
‘When he discovers his mistake there is no tragic self-discovery- Othello does not learn through suffering’
