Othello critics Flashcards
(21 cards)
Ania Loomba - end
“near schitzofrenic hero”
final speech “graphically portrays the split”
Ania Loomba - uh oh
“aware of his tenous position”
tragedy casued when he “begins to forget that he is black”
Karen Newman
does not feel O’s race os presented in a derogatory way , but as a means to challenhdde negative assumptions of society
Caryl Philips
stressed O’s isolation as a black man in a white world
Frances Dolan
Jacobean audience and race
- feels O’s race would have been problematic to S’s audience
- would have felt suspicious because he is black
Paul Roberson - :(
O a “tragedy of racial conflict”
G Wilson-Knight
Suggests P’s speech displays a “uniquely soldierly precision” & a “serenity of thought”
Paul Roberson
it is because “he is an alien among white poeple that his mind worls so quickly for he feels dishonour more deeply”
Lisa Jardin
O murders D “for adultery, not out of jealousy” and he acts with a “complete certainty of her guilt”
Caryl Philips - constantly
O feels “constantly threatened and profoundly insecure”
Caryl Phillips
Sees O’s tragedy as a result of his insecurity and isolation in V society
“life for him is a game in which he does not know the rules”
G.K Hunter
O becomes “a tragedy of the loss of faith”
Ania Loomba - turks
“because O is needed to combat the turks , the senate is willing to regard him as far more fair than black , for B such blindness is impossible”
Stanley Cavell
Asserts o’s opening speech in act 5 scene 2
“part of a ritual of denial”
Ania Loomba - fantasy
“O is both a fantasy of interracial love and a nightmare of racial hatred and male violence”
Caryl philips - O’s line…
‘she had eyes and chose me’ reveals O’s “gross insecurity
Caryl Philips - O’s fatal mistake
is “to Q his own judgement”
E.A.J Honingman
Claims that O is “the most exciting of Shakespeare’s tragedies”
Dominic West
actor , played O in 2011, described “Othello” and “a sexual competition between Iago and Othello”
Karen Newman
O exposes the “fear of racial and sexual difference” of Reinessance culture
Caryl Phillips
commented O is “a man of action , not a thinker”
and suggests O’s position is tenuous
