AO5

Question 1

Antia Loomba - prejudice

Answer 1

‘woman and blacks are others’

Question 2

Lisa Jardine - Desdemona

Answer 2

‘Desdemona becomes a symbol of female passivity

Question 3

Stephen Greenblatt - Desdemona

Answer 3

desdemona’s marriage was her attempt to gain power in a society ruled by men

Question 4

E.A.J Honningman - Iago

Answer 4

‘despite his cleverness, he [Iago] has never felt nor understood the spiritual impulses that bind ordinary human beings together - in a word, love’

Question 5

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Iago

Answer 5

motiveless malignity

Question 6

Marilyn French - women

Answer 6

Othello is a masculine play rejecting female sexuality

Question 7

Lisa Jardine - Desdemona

Answer 7

‘Desdemona’s death is a lesson in what happens if the male hierarchy is disobeyed’

Question 8

Lenoard Tennehnhouse - Desdemona

Answer 8

Desdemona’s death represents the containment of female power to preserve social and class hierarchy

Question 9

Jonathan Dollimore - marxist

Answer 9

Othello reveals ‘the ideological contradictions of a repressive social order’

Question 10

Janet Adelman - psychoanalist

Answer 10

Othello’s identity crisis is triggered by Desdemona’s sexuality leading to a collapse of self

Question 11

Catherine Belsey - Iago

Answer 11

Iago acts out a crisis of selfhood through manipulation, showing the fractured subject