Othello Men and Masculinity Flashcards
‘Send for the lady’ O
Imperative P ‘send’
Proper noun ‘lady’
Allows for D to have her own opinion in the matter
C- Shakespeare enjoyed using the feature of marriage in his tragedies
‘I won his daughter’ O
Dynamic verb -won
D is an object- a prize
C- Productions have differed since the play’s original performance, changing the presentation of O according to different ideas offered by different directors. Some play him as a noble and loving husband, others chose to emphasise his brutality and eroticism
‘Look to your house, your daughter and your bags’ I to B
Exclamative
Concrete, materialistic nouns
Repetition of the possessive noun ‘your’
C- D is owned by her father- considered the norm
‘Adieu, brave Moor, use D well’
Dynamic verb ‘use’
D is seen as an object for O to use
‘He’s done my office’ I about O
Euphemism
Origin for I reasoning to manipulate O- believes he has slept with his wife and his masculinity has been threatened.
C- Fragile masculinity
‘Look to your Wife, observe her well’
I to O
Imperatives ‘look’ and ‘observe’
Iago’s opinion of wives being controlled is evident here. He plants this idea into O head
‘I charge you get you home’ I to E
Imperative, second person pronoun
I is very controlling of E and dislikes it when she voices her opinion
C- Women were ruled by men
Legally they were possessions of men and used by their fathers and husbands to gain authority.
‘I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me?’ O
Exclamative followed by rhetorical question
O resort to violence after believing I
C- Cuckolds- men who are depicted with animal horns to show their wives had been unfaithful
(Striking her) ‘Devil!’ O
Violent DV as a SD
He refers to her as being like the devil, even though she is presented as otherwise in the rest of the play
