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othello Flashcards

1
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how do you identify prose?

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runs margin to margin

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2
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why would verse be used over prose?

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prose is too regular for expressing madness

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what is blank verse?

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iambic pentameter, to add song-like quality to ordinary English

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4
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the use of Venice to Cyprus then being narrowed to a single bedroom implies what?

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claustrophobia. mimics the singular concern

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5
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what does the setting of Venice imply?

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cultural sophistication, power, wealth, order

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6
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what was Cyprus acknowledged as during the Jacobean era?

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a “halfway house” between civilisation and the heathen world

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7
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what might the storm in scene 2 be described as?

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deus ex machina

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what can Iago be considered as?

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a Machiavellian malcontent - a ruthless and deceitful character who is dissatisfied with society and therefore delight in their manipulative evil

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what is the concept of a Machiavellian malcontent credited to?

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Machiavelli.
advocated for political deceit and manipulation to benefit someone

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10
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what is a malcontent able to do?

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comments on the action and may even acknowledge they’re in a play

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11
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who was the Battle of Lepanto between?

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Christian Republic of Venice and Muslim Ottoman Empire

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12
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who wrote the original Othello and what changed?

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Cinthio
Battle of Lepanto

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who won the Battle and what did this do?

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Christian Republic of Venice
restored Christian control

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14
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what was the effect of the Battle of Lepanto mirroring the tensions of the Venetians and Ottomans?

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audience understands the level of tension

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15
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Dr Johnson

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“from the first scene to the last hated and despised.”

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Charles Lamb

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“the ambition, the aspiring spirit, intellectual activity which prompts them to overleap moral fences.”

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17
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Honnigmann on Iago’s jokes

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“practical joker of a peculiarly appalling kind”
“plays chief humourist”

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Honnigmann on Iago and the audience

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we “may come close to sympathising with a villain.”

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Honnigmann and friendship

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“he has never felt nor understood the spiritual impulses that bind ordinary human beings together, loyalty friendship, respect and compassion.”

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Leavis on Othello stabbing Desdemona

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“the noble Othello is now seen as tragically pathetic”

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21
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Leavis on Othello’s reputation

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“Othello is, we cannot doubt, the stoic-captain whose few words know their self-sufficiency”

22
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Loomba

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the myth of Venice - the model of civility

23
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Queen Elizabeth said…

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public speech about the issues of “Blackamoors”

24
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what stereotype did Leavis look at?

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“sensual possessiveness, appetite”
genetically prone to uncontrollable sexual jealousies and urges

25
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C. L. R James

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Othello is about jealousy not rage, as if you removed all aspects of race for the plot, you’d have the same basic story

26
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Okri

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“any Black man who has gone out with a white woman knows there are a lot of Iagos around”

27
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what is the irony of the handkerchief?

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romantic token of love or dropped to provoke chivalry

28
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what do the strawberries on the handkerchief symbolise?

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blood on white sheets
Christian symbol of righteousness
sensuous sexuality

29
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what is meant by the “reputation stereotype of women?”

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rep was a social commodity for survival - unlovable if outspoken, etc.

30
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what is the virgin or whore stereotype?

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4 female statuses: maiden, wife, widow, whore

31
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what is the silent women stereotype?

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in Middle Ages punishment for “nagging” wives, all 3 women push this boundary and 2 die for it

32
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what is the double standard gender stereotype?

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Desdemona is ignorant of infidelity, Cassio seeing a prostitute is common

33
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what is the femme fatal?

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a woman so beautiful that she is dangerous bc they’re magic

34
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what is the sacrificial victim stereotype?

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females cannot live up to male expectations of divinity so falls off her pedestal

35
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Waugh

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“Iago has latent homosexual desires which drive his obsession with Othello’s relationship with Desdemona”

36
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Emery

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Othello’s seizure - “in the unconscious, Othello desired to escape unbearable reality by means of a trance”

37
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Strickler

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“rural England correlated the bodies of animals with women”

38
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Newman

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“Iago’s manipulation of Othello depends on the Moor’s own prejudice against his Blackness and belief that the fair Desdemona would prefer the white Cassio”

39
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Auden

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“Joker of the pack”

40
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Goddard

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Iago has the “highest intellectual gifts”

41
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Leavis on Othello’s acting

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“histrionic”
“Self-dramatising”

42
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Tennenhouse

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Desdemona being killed was “silencing of the female political voice”

43
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Phillips

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Desdemona is a “possession” or “prize”

44
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French

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Desdemona is “self denying in the extreme” when she dies

45
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Coleridge on D’s murder

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“The superhuman art of Iago”

46
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Iagos brilliance is
O’Toole

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lies not in what he puts in Othello’s mind but what “he draws out of it”

47
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anagorisis

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the truth is revealed

48
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Catharsis

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Audience feeling justified

49
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Periperteia

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Change in fortune

50
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Hamartia

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Fatal flaw

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