Gatsby and poetry Flashcards
Intro
D’s naivety from inability to understand military culture and position as a woman
Comes from upper class allowing her more power in Venice
Cyprus is patriarchal and influences male possession
Blindness to change and male jealousy leaves her helpless
tragic trajectory is critic of Elizabethean
P1 - stength in talking to men suggest she is naieve to lack of power against
AO2 ‘Stay and hear me speak’/’I prithee call him back’ - imperatives + sticomythia - challenging male authority believes she has more influence
AO2 Men unpersauded - ‘I deny thee nothing’ - repetition - disinterest shows D is not as equal to Othello as she believes
AO3 Elizabethan women were expected to be submissive and silent in their affairs
AO4 Shakespeare uses images of female passivity but overcome when motiviated by love - Miranda
AO2 Iago can manipulate her challenge of male authority to disloyalty - tragic irony as she is naieve to this
AO2 ‘he hath left part of his greif with me to suffer with him’ - interconnected + marriage vows
AO5: Caroyl Phillips - ‘Othello’s love for Desdemona is the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war’
Othello feels Desdemona has allegiance to Cassio - stolen proeperty
Naive to male interpretation
P2 - Her naivety is less apparent at the beginning of the play in Venice
AO2 A1S3 - speaks in verse - structured and logical - knows how to communicate with males - AO3 upper class women educated privately
AO2 ‘my noble father - flattery
AO2 A2S1 - speaks in prose to Iago - calm + rational
AO3 16th century Venice was a seal of power and Cyprus was a vulnerable outpost synonymous with war between Venice and the Ottomans
AO2 binary opposite setting mirror D’s change - high status to vulnerable to patriarchal military
Her naivety to knew culture means her actions are unknowingly destructuve
AO2 Absence from A2S2 means naive to events but also that Cassio’s demotion is just protocol - ‘the wars makes example out of their best’
She is challenging Othello as a husband and a commander - women should not get involved in public sphere
AO5 Feminist criticism - women navigating sphere and unjustly pushed back for this with male violence
AO4 same tragic trajectory as LM who does this
P3 - at the climax she is naieve to Othello harbouring common masculine traits like jealosuy
AO2 A3S4 - ‘made of no such baseness’/’the sun where he was born drew all such humours from him’ - metpahor - blind idolisation of him
AO3 Four humours used to diagnose illness - perfect human has a balance of all four
By saying he has no negative ones should make him perfect by the removal just creates an insatbiity
AO2 Emilia is her foil - she is wise to men’s actions - ‘they are all but stomachs and we the food’ - metaphor - abuse
D naievty to overt jealousy makes it even harder to see covert jealousy - Iago
Iago perhaps more orchestrates as his other sub plots catalyse together to her downfall
AO4 Typical of a malcontent + D trajectory is typical to that of a tragic victim in tragic genre
AO5 T.S Eliot ‘Iago simply exploits a weakness already existed in Othello’ - ‘he would sneak away so guilty like’ - similie - playing on Othello’s paranoia
He does this too with D - her naievty of male culture is exploited to anger Othello and present her as guilty - she is helpless to male control
