Critics and theories- O

Question 1

Bradely

Answer 1

Defends Othello by saying he is the most romantic character in Shakespear’s tragic hero’s. Bradley believed that Othello never falls completely and suggested that at the end of the play we feel ‘admiration and love’ for the hero.

Question 2

Michel Foucault

Answer 2

-Examining the relationship between power and knowledge and that discourse shapes what can be known

Question 3

Theory of Body Polytic

Answer 3

A metaphor for society the higher on the body (head) the more power, (legs) proletariat

Question 4

Theory of counterhegemony

Answer 4

An action that challenge and resist the dominant power structure
-subverts dominant power through challenging

Question 5

Theory of psychogeography

Answer 5

Weather/ landscape reflects internal structures of a character