WOMEN CRITICS Flashcards
1
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John Knox
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Women are “weak ,frail ,impatient ,feeble and foolish..”
2
Q
Aristotle
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“The disposition of the female is softer, and more tameable and submissive”
3
Q
Paul Vogel
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Othello is “male centred”
4
Q
Ania Loomba
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“Othello is predisposed to believing [Iago’s] pronouncements about the inherent duplicity of women.”
5
Q
Marilyn French
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Desdemona “accepts her culture’s dictum that she must be obedient to males” and is “self-denying in the extreme” when she dies”
6
Q
Lisa Jardine
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Jardine asserts the view that Desdemona proves to be “too-knowing, too independent”
7
Q
S.N Garner
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“Desdemona’s liveliness assertiveness, and sensuality are corroborated in her marrying Othello.
The crucial fact of her marriage is not that she elopes, but that she, a white women, weds a black man”
