Critics 101-120 Flashcards
101
Cox - ‘women could rise through their association with men in their ranks’
102
Marilyn French - ‘Othello is a masculine play because it rejects female sexuality and freedom’
103
Penny Gay - ‘Desdemona is a pathetic victim of circumstances ‘the truly tragic female figure in this story’
104
N.R Miller - ‘recent critics have began to view Bianca as a strong, independent woman rather than a …‘tragic wh*re’
105
Veronica Walker - ‘Cassio is a loveable and trustworthy character’
106
Mendes - ‘Desdemona made a very specific decision to marry this man … that makes her in some ways extremely strong, an active participant in the drama, rather than an insipid feeble girl’
107
Fintan O’Toole - ‘Iago and Othello are close … they start to melt into each other … Othello’s grand verse breaks down into jagged disordered prose. Iago’s prose becomes triumphant verse’
108
W.H Auden - ‘Iago is motivated by a desire to know and show what othello is really like’
109
Leonard Prager - ‘it is Othello’s inability to question the cause of ‘honest Iago’ that assures his tragic fall’
110
Emma Smith - ‘Othello is nothing more than a racist play’
111
Leavis - [Othello’s] ‘self pride becomes stupidity, ferocious stupidity, an insane and self-deceiving passion’
112
Robert Heilman - ‘The hate is priorand a motive is then discovered’
113
A.C Bradley - ‘The skill of Iago was extraordinary, but so was his good fortune’
114
W.H Auden - ‘Her determination to marry Othello… seems the romantic crush of a silly schoolgirl rather than a mature affection: it is Othello’s adventures, so unlike the civilian life she knows, which captivate her rather than Othello as a person’
115
A.C Bradley - ‘She is helpless because her nature is infinitely sweet and her love absolute’
