Character specific Flashcards
(11 cards)
1
Q
“Shakespeare put a great deal of himself into Iago”
A
Bradley
2
Q
“[Iago] is a kind of Mephistopheles”
A
Knight
3
Q
“Why does he, in his soliloquies, seek a human motive for his evil”
A
Rosenburg
4
Q
“cassio… Is Shakespeare’s figure of Adam”
A
Bryant
5
Q
“cassio in the end seems to represent the better man”
A
Walker
6
Q
“There is much to suggest that othello is childlike, gentle and pure in heart”
A
Muir
7
Q
“divine justice somehow verify the existence in the play of
that justice?”
A
West
8
Q
The perfection of women is to be characterless…everyone wishes a Desdemona for a wife
A
Coleridge
9
Q
“characters divide into virgins and saints or whores and devils”
A
Cox
10
Q
“Emilia is prey to the dominant ideology of wifely virtue”
A
Neely
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