Othello Critical Comments Flashcards
Jyotsna Singh
“Othello’s self-destructively internalises the prevailing racism, while Desdemona […] remains an idealised, virtuous woman- keeping alive the image of a besieged, white femininity so crucial to the production of the black man as a ‘savage’.”
Bonnie Greer
“it is only “Othello’s jealousy, not Iago’s hatred, that is the real tragedy”
Caryl Phillips
“Othello’s love of Desdemona is the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war.”
T S Elliot
“Iago simply exploits a weakness that already existed in Othello’s character.”
“Othello is anything but noble and endeavours to escape reality.”
Coleridge
Iago’s soliloquies reveal “the motive hunting of motiveless malignity”
Wayne
“Iago is the presence of misogynist discourse in the Renaissance.”
E A J Honigam
“His [Iago] humour seems to make him cleverer than his victims.”
Tennenhouse
“Desdemona’s death is an example of silencing the rebellious female voice.”
Abrahams
“Each woman is so measured in response to her husband’s malignancy that she fails to prevent her own destruction at her husband’s hands”
Thomas
“Emilia stealing the handkerchief is the catalyst for the play’s crisis.”
Novy
“Bianca calls into question the value of the purely technical chastity that male society so values.”
Bunten
“Bianca reflects the paradox of Venetian sexual morality.”
