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Desdemona Flashcards

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‘I am hitherto your daughter but here’s my husband’ Theme

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Marriage

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‘I am hitherto your daughter but here’s my husband’ Meaning

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Prevalence of deeply patriarchal power that women internalise seeing themselves as products of ownership.

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‘Nobody I myself farewell’ Theme

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Marriage

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‘Nobody I myself farewell’ Meaning

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Due to Othello’s abuse and mistreatment in their marriage she looses her assertiveness and identity.

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Claude Levi Straus

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‘Patriarchal society treats women as objects to be transferred from one dominant male to another’’

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‘Moth of peace’ Theme

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Naivety

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‘Moth of peace’ Meaning

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Metaphor used to describe her loss without Othello, unaware she’s disturbing his peace.

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‘I saw Othello’s visage in my mind’ Theme

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Love

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‘I saw Othello’s visage in my mind’ Meaning

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She fights for Othello and their marriage asserting her love for him.

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‘His unkindness may defeat my life but never taint my love’ Theme

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Loyalty

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‘His unkindness may defeat my life but never taint my love’ Meaning

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Despite the mistreatment Desdemona experiences she states she will always love him.

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‘Thy solicitor rather die than give thy away’ Theme

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Loyalty

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‘Thy solicitor rather die than give thy away’ Meaning

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Sacrifice Cassio before herself Serve men before herself. Situational Irony.

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‘House, your daughters, your bags’ Theme

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possession

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‘House, your daughters, your bags’ Meaning

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Listed among possessions

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‘Loved me for the dangers I had passed’ Theme

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Worship

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‘Loved me for the dangers I had passed’ Meaning

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Suggests she fell in love with his war stories rather than him.

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‘The rites for which I love him are befret me’ Theme

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Proximity and distance

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‘The rites for which I love him are befret me’ Meaning

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Attachment has to follow him to Cyprus

19
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What does French say about Desdemona?

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‘Desdemona accepts her culture dictum that she must be obedient to males’

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What does Smith say about Desdemona?

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‘Desdemona’s character turns from a spirited eloquent into a passive object’

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