Othello (other) Critics Flashcards
(12 cards)
What does Carol Phillips say?
“Othello feels constantly threatened and profoundly insecure”
What does Marilyn French
“Desdemona accepts her cultures dictum that she must be obedient to males, and is self-denying to the point of self-destruction”
What does Marsh argue?
“Othello wants Desdemona to be his property”
What does Helen Gardner argue about Othello?
“He is a man of alien race”
What does Cox argue
“All three women endanger their lives, and two of them lose it, for daring to break silence”
What does Anderson argue?
“Emilia is just another tool”
What does Tennehouse argue about Desdemona’s death?
Her death is an example of silencing rebellious female voices.
What does Foakes argue?
Iago acts from “hatred for what is good”
What does Jane Anger argue?
“Iago is the presence of misogynistic discourse in the Renaissance”
What does T.S Elliot argue?
Othello’s final speech was full of “an attitude of self dramatization”
What does T.S Elliot say about Iago?
“Iago’s manipulation is successful because Othello is already predisposed to insecurity”
What does Greenblatt argue?
“Othello is always ‘becoming’ the role expected of him”
