Othello CRITICS

Question 1

JEALOUSY - Bonnie Greer

Answer 1

“it is only “Othello’s jealousy, not Iago’s hatred, that is the real tragedy”

Question 2

JEALOUSY - Andy Serkins

Answer 2

“He is not the devil. He’s you or me being jealous and not being able to control our feelings”

Question 3

JEALOUSY - Andy Serkins

Answer 3

“He’s you or me being jealous and being able to control our feelings.”

Question 4

JEALOUSY - Kenneth Tyan

Answer 4

” Othello is the most easily jealous man that anybody’s ever written about”

Question 5

JEALOUSY - A.C Bradley

Answer 5

“a blackness suddenly intervenes between his eyes and the world”

Question 6

RACE - S N Garner

Answer 6

“The crucial fact of her marriage is not that she elopes but that she, a white woman, weds a black man.”

Question 7

RACE - Anita Loomba

Answer 7

“Women and Blacks exist as ‘the other’.”

Question 8

RACE - Ruth Cowhig

Answer 8

“An alien in a white society.” (OTHELLO)

Question 9

RACE - Michael D Bristol

Answer 9

“Othello is a test of racial and sexual persecution.”

Question 10

GENDER - Anita Loomba

Answer 10

“Women and Blacks exist as ‘the other’.”

Question 11

GENDER - Caryl Phillips

Answer 11

“Othello’s love of Desdemona is the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war.”

Question 12

GENDER - feminist

Answer 12

“See Desdemona as a hideous embodiment of the downtrodden woman”.

Question 12

GENDER - Lisa Jardine, feminist reading

Answer 12

“Desdemona becomes a stereotype of female passivity.”

Question 13

GENDER - Valerie Wayne

Answer 13

“Iago is the presence of misogynist discourse in the Renaissance.”

Question 14

SEX AND MARRIAGE - S N Garner

Answer 14

“The crucial fact of her marriage is not that she elopes but that she, a white woman, weds a black man.”

Question 15

SEX AND MARRIAGE - Carol Neely

Answer 15

“Emilia acts according to “wifely virtues of silence, obedience, and prudence.”

Question 16

SEX AND MARRIAGE - Valerie Wayne

Answer 16

“Handkerchief - “It is an emblem of Desdemona’s body”

Question 17

SEX AND MARRIAGE - Karen Newman

Answer 17

“Possession of a woman’s handkerchief was considered adultery”

Question 18

SEX AND MARRIAGE - Lynda Boose

Answer 18

“Othello is one way or another a play about marriage.”

Question 19

SEX AND MARRIAGE - Michael D Bristol

Answer 19

“Othello is a test of racial and sexual persecution.”

Question 20

MANIPULATION - Harry L Warnken

Answer 20

“His thoughts and feelings echo Iago’s”

Question 21

MANIPULATION - A C Bradley

Answer 21

“Hesitation is almost impossible to him. He is extremely self-reliant and decides and acts instantaneously.”

Question 22

MANIPULATION - E.A.J Honigam

Answer 22

“His humour seems to make him cleverer than his victims.”

Question 23

MANIPULATION - A C Bradley

Answer 23

Othello is “usually open to deception.”

Question 24

MANIPULATION - Fred West

Answer 24

“Iago has all of the psychological traits of a psychopath.”

Question 25

WARFARE - Henry L Warnken

Answer 25

“He is a soldier and is therefore accustomed to hardship and cruelty.”

Question 26

WARFARE - Caryl Phillips

Answer 26

“Othello’s love of Desdemona is the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war.”

Question 27

HATE - Bonnie Greer

Answer 27

“it is only Othello jealousy, not Iago’s hatred, that is the real tragedy.”

Question 28

HATE - Valerie Wayne

Answer 28

“Iago is the presence of misogynist discourse in the Renaissance.”

Question 29

HATE - Sean McEvoy

Answer 29

“The audience becomes complicit in Iago’s intention and, like it or not, is soon involved in his vengeful plotting.”

Question 30

HATE - Frank Kermode

Answer 30

“Iago is motivated by more than a mere desire for revenge.”

Question 31

IDENTITY - Henry L Warnken

Answer 31

“He is a soldier and is therefore accustomed to hardship and cruelty.”

Question 32

IDENTITY - Fred West

Answer 32

“Iago has all the psychological traits of a psychopath.”

Question 33

IDENTITY - Andy Serkins

Answer 33

“He’s you or me being jealous and being able to control our feelings.”

Question 34

IDENTITY - T S Elliot

Answer 34

“Iago simply exploits a weakness that already existed in Othello’s character.”

Question 35

IDENTITY - O’Toole

Answer 35

‘there is no Othello without Iago’