Critics 81-100 Flashcards
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Bernard O’Keeffe - ‘he is driving him [Othello] into an emotion from which he himself suffers and which he understands intimately’
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Bernard O’Keeffe - ‘Iago is able to wreak such terrible havoc in the world of the play because of his ability to use language better than anyone else’
83
Bernard O’Keeffe - ‘Iago, the supreme storyteller’
84
Giles Block - ‘we become complicit in his devilry’
85
James Calderwood - ‘To win Desdemona is to acquire an external property that will reflect his internal worth: he will be what he owns’
86
Michael Best - Shakespeare shows how the male eye has a disconcerting tendency to see women in absolutes as either divine or hellish, angels or whores’
87
John Knox - “weak, frail, impatient, feeble and foolish” - women :D
88
Loomba - ‘Female openness was dangerous and immoral’
89
A.C Bradley - ‘Othello is the greatest poet of them all’
90
Megg Ward - ‘Emilia becomes a hero by the end of the play’
91
Marilyn French - ‘She remains submissive till the end’ - Desdemona
92
Nigel Wheale - ‘are ‘acted upon’ rather than being the mistresses of their own fates’
93
Vanita - ‘Othello’s behaviour arises from his insecurity as a black in a racist white society’
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Honingmann - Iago’s ‘humour either intends to give pain or allows him to bask in his sense of his own superiority’
95
Vanita - ‘the tragedy is shown to be at every point avoidable and finally occurs because those who should intervene fail to do so’
