RACE CRITICS

Question 1

Ania Loomba

Answer 1

‘Othello is both a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance, and nightmare of racial hatred and male violence’

Question 2

A.C Bradley Othello

Answer 2

“does not belong to our world”.

Question 3

T.S Eliot

Answer 3

• Asserted that Cassio’s helpless reaction to Othello’s suicide in Act 5 underscores the “dividing line between the radically different worlds of Othello and Venice”. Reflecting the consensus that it is Othello’s outsider-status and failure to adhere to Venice’s societal conformities that induces his downfall.

Question 4

F.R Leavis

Answer 4

• Othello’s downfall comes largely as a consequence of “ignorance of self’, supporting the notion that the tragic protagonist’s fatal flaw is his failure to fully integrate himself with Venetian culture.”

Question 5

Solomon Plaatje

Answer 5

‘Othello demonstrates to us that “nobility and valour, like depravity and cowardice, are not the monopoly of any colour’