OTHELLO Flashcards
leavis on self discovery
“there is no self discovery”
Leavis on sentimentalising
“the fact that othello tends to sentimentalise should be the reverse of the reason for our sentimentalising too”
loomba on othellos beliefs
“othello is a victim of racial beliefs precisely because he becomes an agent of misogynist ones”
G. Wilson Knight on Othello’s language - subverts racial ideas of language
“the othello music”
Bradley on Othello’s destructive jealousy
“such jealousy as othello’s converts human nature into chaos, and liberates the beast in man”
Greer on Othello’s jealousy
“it is othello’s jealousy and not iagos hatred that is the real tragedy”
Bradley on Othello’s positive traits
“sympathetic and noble”
Empson on Othello’s naivety regarding Iago
calling Iago honest “becomes an obsession”
