Quotes Backwards Flashcards
“…I know not if ‘t be true, but, I, for more suspicion in that kind, will do as if safety.”
“I hate the Moor, and it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets has done my office…”
“…doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
“Beware… of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which…”
“…I an obedient.”
“Whatev’r you be,…”
“… and the threat posed to it by both a black man and a white woman.”
Loomba: “[the play’s conflict is] between the racism of a white patriarchy…”
“…and by making Desdemona’s love for Othello… sympathetic…”
Newman: “by making the black Othello a hero,…”
She is punished by the patriarchy
Lisa Jardine: Because of Desdemona’s waywardness
When she dies, she accepts her culture’s dictum that she must be obedient to males.
Marilyn French: “…and is self-denying in the extreme.”
Winter: The story is an unsuccessful play/tragedy due to lack of catharsis
“The total effect of the tragedy is hard, unrelieved, harrowing pain.”
“I’ll tear her all to pieces.”
“[I wish] swift means of death for the fair devil.”
