Othello A04 Flashcards
AO4 focuses on making connections across texts and exploring meanings and interpretations that arise not just from the text's own context (AO3), but also from broader historical or cultural contexts informed by the study of the period. e.g We might make interpretations of Othello based on Macbeth, Romeo and Juliette, ect.
theme of appearance versus reality
Lady Macbeth says this to her husband: “look like th’innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t.”
comparable to Iago
theme of Jealousy/ madness
Hamlet: Ophelia goes made when rejected by lover and drawn when falls out a willow tree. she accidentally falls in the water and then simply neglects to save herself from sinking.
comparable to Othello
Symbolism of sickness and nature
Benvoli finds Romeo wondering by a grove of Sycamore trees when love-sick
comparable to the Willow tree song Emilia sings
Also: “The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree” Desdemona
theme of a enternal love
Sonnet 116 ‘If this be error and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d’
comparable to “For if she be not happy, chaste and true// There’s no man happy” Emilia
