Critics 41-50

Question 1

41. Loomba

Answer 1

Othello is a victim of racial beliefs precisely as he becomes an agent of misogynistic ones’

Question 2

42. Simpson

Answer 2

Emilia dies in service of the truth

Question 3

43. A.C Bradley

Answer 3

‘Evil has nowhere been portrayed with such mastery as in the character of Iago’

Question 4

44. Richard Lees

Answer 4

instead of the monster they were encouraged to preconceive, Shakespeare presents an articulate and rational Christian’

Question 5

45. Michael Best

Answer 5

‘Shakespeare shows how the male eye has a disconcerting tendency to see women in absolutes as either divine or hellish, angels or whores’

Question 6

46. Marilyn French

Answer 6

‘She remains submissive till the end’

Question 7

47. Dostoevsky

Answer 7

– ‘Othello was not jealous he was trustful’

Question 8

48. A.C Bradley (2)

Answer 8

‘The skill of Iago was extraordinary, but so was his good fortune’

Question 9

49. Mendes

Answer 9

‘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’

Question 10

50. Fintan O’Toole

Answer 10

‘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’

Question 11

51. Loomba

Answer 11

‘issue a warning not only to disobedient daughters but also to open societies who let in outsiders’

Question 12

52. V.Walker

Answer 12

Seems to represent the better man

Question 13

53. Peter Hollindale

Answer 13

Desdemona is arguably the most disregarded and underrated heroine in Shakespeare