ENGL 348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Roderigo, Everyman, Shakespearean Tragedy
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Iago"s motives: anomalies in play critical to its understanding. Iago is in nearly every scene (grand puppet master: othello is easily manipulated & impressionable, contemporary character, shows terrible vulnerability. Especially as protagonist: easier to relate to someone who is persecuted as other, easy to cast yourself as other b/c you have your own thoughts, capacity w/in everyone to feel like an other. Is shakespeare interrogating racism: gone through great deal of change where it"s not allowed. Split view on othello: can relate to the everyman in him, figure is presented w/ good & bad & he chooses bad, he"s powerful yet vulnerable. ", and then kiss me hard,/ as if he plucked up kisses by the roots/ that grew upon my lips, then laid his leg/ over my thigh, and signed, and kissed" 1. 1 line 1: "tush: first word of play, line 4: ""sblood"
