Othello critics Flashcards
1
Q
Coleridge
A
“Motiveless malignity” of Iago
1
Q
O’Toole
A
“There is no Othello without Iago”
2
Q
Loomba
A
Othello is a “victim of racial beliefs” because he is an “agent of misogyny”
3
Q
Raatzch
A
Noted the phonetic affinity between “ego” and “Iago”
4
Q
Wain
A
“A tragedy of misunderstanding”
5
Q
Phillips
A
“Othello’s love of Desdemona is the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war”
6
Q
Honigmann
A
“[Iago’s] humour seems to make him cleverer than his victims”
7
Q
Jardine
A
“Desdemona becomes a stereotype of female passivity”
8
Q
Greer
A
“It is only Othello’s jealousy, not Iago’s hatred, that is the real tragedy”
9
Q
Cowhig
A
“An alien in a white society”
10
Q
Elliot
A
“Iago simply exploits a weakness that already existed in Othello’s character”
