AO3 Flashcards
Kermode - Iago’s character
“Iago is probably his most disgusted and disgusting character”
Kermode - Iago’s language
“lexical resourcefulness”
Kermode - Cassio
“a touch of the libertine”
Kermode - Iago’s deception
“Iago’s honesty, a conviction of which in the other character is now essential to his design”
Bradley - Othello’s jealousy
“Such jealousy as Othello’s convert human nature into chaos, and liberates the beast in man”
Bradley - Othello’s tradegy
“His whole nature was indisposed to jealousy, and yet he was unusually open to deception”
Bradley - Othello’s nature
“His is quite free of introspection, and is not given to reflection”
Bradley - Othello’s love
“There is no love … more steeped in imagination than Othello’s”
Bradley - Othello’s trust
“his trust, where he trusts, is absolute. Hesitation is almost impossible to him”
W.H.Auden - Desdemona
“Everyone must pity Desdemona, but I cannot bring myelf to like her”
Atkins - Desdemona’s tradegy
“The more Desdemona tries to fulfill her role as the dutiful wife the less she is able to defend herself”
Atkins - D’s naivety
“element of maivety in Desdemona’s character in frustrating”
Atkins - D’s loyalty
“Even unto death Desdemona has remained loyal to her husband and this is the ultimate act of self abnegation”
Saunders - Desdemona’s obedience
“mechanical obedience of her actions”
Saunders - Emilia’s role
“the voice of truth and moral clarity”
Saunders - D’s idealism
“soggy sweetness of D’s naive idealism”
Blamires - D from O’s perspective
“she appears in O’s double-vision as both whore and virgin”
Blamires - D’s death
“Desdemona killed for being a whore, dies a virgin”
Taylor - Male concerns
“Othello is much concerned with male notions of property”
Taylor - values of Venice
“The mercantile ethos of Shakespeare’s Venice”
Taylor - Othello’s view of D
“The idea that she is his property has come to be the very basis of Othello’s sense of Venetian identity”
Taylor - Bed and Handkerchief
“The sheets are stained at last. A copy of the handkerchief has been made after all”
Burnett - language and power
“The successful command of language guarantees the possession of power”
Burnett - O and service
“a lofty notion of service preoccupies him”
