Othello: Critcal Quotes- Characters Flashcards
Sanders:
“A racial and religious melting pot”
Honigmann: (1) - First…
“first scene to the last hated and despitsed.”
Honigmann: (2) confides
“Dramatic perspective can even make us the villain’s accomplices: he confides in us”
Honigmann: (3) godlike
“He enjoys a godlike sense of power”
Honigmann: (4) excels
“excels in short-term tactics, not in long-term strategy”
Honigmann: (5) he has neither
“he has neither felt nor understood the spirital impulses that bind ordinary human beigns together”
Honigmann: (6) Iago’s undoing
“Emilia’s love (of Desdemona) is Iago’s undoing”
Leavis: (1) tragic
“there is no tragic self discovery”
Leavis: (2) pathetic
“The noble Othello is now seen as tragically pathetic”
Leavis: (3) stoic-captain
“the stoic-captain whose few words know their full sufficiency.”
Leavis: (4) Inseperatly
“Inseperatly the man of action”
Leavis: (5) readiness
“Not so much Iago’s diabolic intellect as Othello’s
readiness to respond”
Loomba: (1) fantasy
“a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance”,
“and a nightmare of racial hatred and male violence”
Loomba: (2) predisposed
“Othello is predisposed to believing… the inherent duplicity of women”
Loomba: (3) fragility
“the fragility of an ‘unnatural’ relationship between a young, white, well-born women, and an older black soldier”
Loomba: (4) dangerous
“Venice’s openness could also be viewed as dangerous by a society itself fairly suspicious of outsiders”
Jardine: (1) accused
“All three are wrongfully accused of sexual misdemeanour”
Jardine: (2) identical
” the identical charge of sexual promiscuity”
Jardine: (3) whore
“It does not just matter that a woman is called ‘whore’, it matters when and where she is”
Bradley: (1) retaliate
“She cannot retaliate even in speech.”
Bradley: (2) a man of
“Othello is a man of mystery, exoticism and intense feeling”
Bradley: (3) trust
“His trust… is absolute.”
Bradley: (4) conciousness
“The conciousness of his high position never leaves him,,, he is as anxious as Hamlet not to be misjudged by the great world”
Newman: (1) norms
“Both Othello and Desdemona deviate from the norms of the sex/race system in which they
participate from the margins.”
