Justice

Question 1

Frances Dolan

Answer 1

“Othello constitutes his murder of Desdemona as an execution of justice and revenger undertaken (dispassionately) as public service, he finally murders Desdemona in propria personaL as a base, selfish, passionately jealous husband”

Question 2

Bradley (on jealousy)

Answer 2

‘Such jealousy as Othello’s converts human nature into chaos and liberates the beast in a man”

Question 3

June Sturrock

Answer 3

“The issue between Othello and Desdemona is love and justice”

Question 4

French (on murder)

Answer 4

“The murder in Othello is the murder of a vision of human love purified from the faint of sexuality”

Question 5

French (on Iago)

Answer 5

“Although fortunes are promised, Iago stands alive at the end of the play, surrounded. by bodies, and is, in our imagination, triumphant”

Question 6

Bradley on individuals

Answer 6

“In this tragic world… individuals,, are so evidently not the ultimate power”

Question 7

Johnson

Answer 7

Shakespeare seems to write without any moral purpose.. he makes no just distribution of good and evil”