Quotes Incomplete Flashcards
“Even now, now, very now, an…”
“…old black ram is tupping your white ewe.”
“I hate the Moor, and it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets has done my office…”
“…I know not if ‘t be true, but, I, for more suspicion in that kind, will do as if safety.”
“She has deceived her father,…”
“…and may thee.”
“Beware… of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which…”
“…doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
“Whatev’r you be,…”
“…I an obedient.”
“Utter my thoughts?”
“Why, say they are vile and false.”
“She did deceive her father,…”
“…marrying you.”
“Excellent wretch!…”
“…I do love thee!…”
Loomba: “[the play’s conflict is] between the racism of a white patriarchy…”
“… and the threat posed to it by both a black man and a white woman.”
Newman: “by making the black Othello a hero,…”
“…and by making Desdemona’s love for Othello… sympathetic…”
Lisa Jardine: Because of Desdemona’s waywardness
She is punished by the patriarchy
Marilyn French: “…and is self-denying in the extreme.”
Idea, not quote
When she dies, she accepts her culture’s dictum that she must be obedient to males.
