critics

Question 1

simpson

Answer 1

othello “allows Iago to replace Desdeomona in his esteem and his affection, as his soulmate”

Question 2

Bradley
TS Elliot

Answer 2

“by far the most romantic figure amongst shakespeares heros” TS Elliot “othello has the most terrible portrayal of human nature in his last speech”

Question 3

Leavis

Answer 3

“othello is completely flawed”

Question 4

cox

Answer 4

“Iago is satanic in his energy”
‘the word ‘lucky’ is more appropraite for Iago than ‘honest’”
“he makes his superiors his puppets”
“he is the black sheep of the play, rather than othello”

Question 5

Holland

Answer 5

“Iago is the stage manager”

Question 6

Gilbert

Answer 6

“Iago represents puritanism”

Question 7

Coleridge

Answer 7

“iago suffers from motiveless malignity”

Question 8

Blake

Answer 8

“he publishes doubt and calls it knowledge”

Question 9

Jarvis

Answer 9

“a whores death for all her innocence”

Question 10

Hopkins

Answer 10

“Desdeomona carries a name that seals her fate ; with the etymology of ‘wretched fate’”

Question 11

Cox-desdemona

Answer 11

“she is damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t”

Question 12

Adams

Answer 12

“she falls in love, for no better reason than that he has told her braggart story”

Question 13

coleridge

Answer 13

“the perfection of woemen is to be characterless, everyone wishes a desdeomona for a wife”

Question 14

Bradley

Answer 14

“she nowhere shows any sign of having a bad heart”

Question 15

simpson-emilia

Answer 15

“emilia underscores desdeomonas lack of knowledge for the world”
“she dies in the service of truth”
“we have to acknowledge that wives were required to be obedient”

Question 16

Bailey

Answer 16

“emilia is the mouth peice of oppressed feminity”

Question 17

Wayne

Answer 17

beacuse the handkercheif serves as a symbol of married chasity, it cannot be copied by Emilia”

Question 18

Schwab

Answer 18

“iagos most underrated but most constant victim is his wife, Emilia”

Question 19

spencer

Answer 19

‘cassio is a foil character’

Question 20

Hopkins

Answer 20

“Cassio carries a name meaning “hollow”, of italian origin”

Question 21

Cowhig

Answer 21

“othello is an alien in a white society”

Question 22

Loomba

Answer 22

‘women and blacks were seen as existing in the same realm as the “other”

Question 23

Cox-play

Answer 23

“nearly every scene in the play refers to or depends upon a caharcter seeing and knowing something”
“we are unsure about the validity of othello and desdemonas love”

Question 24

Norris

Answer 24

“bianca is also an allusion to a problematic status of woemne both in this period and today”

Question 25

Kermode-roderigo

Answer 25

"Iagos deception of roderigo is based upon mans willingness to believe thatdv esdoemna is sexually corruptible"

Question 26

Hopkins-setting

Answer 26

"cyprus is based on commodities, linking to the ideas of 'put money in they purse"

Question 27

cox-honour/ honesty

Answer 27

"honest is used fifty-two times in the play overall" "deatb was preferable to dishonour"

Question 28

Simpson-honour

Answer 28

"iago is exposed as a shallow fool"

Question 29

Dostoevsky

Answer 29

"othello was not jelous, but he was trustful"

Question 30

Jardine

Answer 30

"all three are wromngly accused of sexual misdemenour over the course of the play"

Question 31

Cox-women

Answer 31

"men wished to marry virgins and held a deep fear of women deceiving them"

Question 32

french

Answer 32

"accepts her cultures dictim thatrs he must be obedient to males" "self deneying in the extreme"

Question 33

Tennehouse

Answer 33

"desdeomonas death is an example of silenecing the rebelious female voice"

Question 34

McVoy

Answer 34

"audience to share Iagos delight in his own powers"

Question 35

Coldridge

Answer 35

" it was something monsterous to conceive this beautiful veterain girl falling in love with a vertiable negro"

Question 36

Loomba

Answer 36

"othello is both a fantasy of interacial love and social tolerance and a nighmare of racial harmed and male violence" "othello is a victim of racial beliefs precisely because he becomes an agent of misoginsitic ones"

Question 37

TS Elliot

Answer 37

"full of self dramatisation" "only thinking of himself"

Question 38

Hazlitt

Answer 38

"othello has a greater depth of passion that evokes a lot of pathos"