Othello AO5!!!

Question 1

McCulloch: What hurts Othello far more than losing Desdemona….

(Othello as a tragedy, characterisation)

Answer 1

is losing the equanimity he needs to do his job

Question 2

McCulloch: Othello is at war….

(Othello as a tragedy,characterisation)

Answer 2

with himself and cannot win

Question 3

Wheale: Observing a tragic event chills us with shock…

(Othello as a tragedy, characterisation)

Answer 3

and moves us with compassionate pity, making us realise the fragility and vulnerability of human life

Question 4

Greer: The story of us all…

(Othello as a tragedy, characterisation)

Answer 4

the weakness inherent within every human being.

Question 4

Wheale: The play provides the focus for the …

(Othello as a tragedy, characterisation)

Answer 4

most powerful male motivation of renaissance tragedy - revenge.

Question 5

Ryan: Shakespeare produced in Othello a searing critique of….

(Race and Gender)

Answer 5

racial and sexual injustice, which is more powerful now in the 21st century than it ever could have been at the dawn of the 17th

Question 6

Ryan: Othello’s vulnerability as a black outsider

(Race and Gender)

Answer 6

who unconsciously shares the white perception of his blackness

Question 7

Loomba: Othello is both a

(Race and Gender)

Answer 7

fantasy of interracial love and a nightmare of racial hatred and male violence

Question 8

Loomba: Othello’s is a victim of racial beliefs because

(Race and Gender)

Answer 8

he becomes an agent of misogynistic ones

Question 9

Bradley: Othello does not

(Race and Gender)

Answer 9

belong to our world

Question 10

Block: Shakespeare frequently uses prose…capturing the way soldiers… tend to

(Masculinity and identity)

Answer 10

hide their true feelings behind a mask of witty worldly toughness

Question 11

Jardine: A stereotype of….

(Desdemona)

Answer 11

female passivity

Question 12

Newman: Iago is culturally

(Iago)

Answer 12

diabolical

Question 13

Honingman: Iago enjoys a

(Iago)

Answer 13

god like sense of power

Question 14

Wendel: Emilia is a symbol of

(Emilia, gender)

Answer 14

defiance

Question 15

Honingman: Despite his cleverness Iago has never felt

(Iago)

Answer 15

spiritual impulses that bind humans together, in a word love.

Question 16

Ryan: He’s pathologically normal and

(Iago)

Answer 16

theatrically irresistible

Question 17

Greer: They don’t go home hoping that they won’t meet an Iago but…

(Iago)

Answer 17

understanding something of the nature of evil

Question 18

Hadfield: Venice a….

(setting)

Answer 18

critical utopian space

Question 19

Lacan: Every individual experiences self-alienation due to their perception of themselves…

(proximity, isolation and distance)

Answer 19

this self isolation may be observed in Othello’s character.

Question 20

Hatchuel: constructions of humans in peripheral space were emeshed in discourse…

Answer 20

based on the fear of difference and impulses to dominate

Question 21

AC Bradley tragedy is “essentially a tale of ……

vs

Nutall “oxymoronic tragic joy ….

Answer 21

• suffering and calamity conducting to death
• conveys a much stronger response from the audience

Question 22

kastan “genre of

Answer 22

uncompensated suffering

Question 23

kastan “absence of clear answers

Answer 23

to these question is central to Shakespearean tragedy