Some additional Othello critics Flashcards
(4 cards)
1
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Marilyn French- Desdemona
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Desdemona accepts her cultures dictum that she must be obedient to males
‘ I do perceive here a divided duty’
2
Q
Ruth Vanita- Desdemona
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Desdemona is killed by all those who see her humiliated and beaten in public and fail to intervene
3
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WH Auden- Desdemona
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everybody must pity Desdemona but I cannot bring myself to like her- her determination to marry Othello- it was she who virtually did the proposing- seems like a romantic crush of a silly schoolgirl rather than mature affection- it is othello’s adventures- unlike the civilian life that she knows
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