EN 1006 Lecture Notes - Sexual Jealousy, The Infamous
17 Apr 2013
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Othello"s strong military focus: little knowledge of worldly matters. My life upon her faith! (i, iii, 292)= othello"s intense, impassioned love. Very level headed, mature, focused, very unlike someone young. Brawl between casio and rodrigo: going turk (ii, iii 161-63, ironic, because othello himself goes turk . Othello"s truth (promise) to iago: i am bound to thee for ever (iii, iii, 216) = perversion of marriage vow. Othello: show me thy thought (iii, iii, 119) Seeing is believing : othello falls prey to iago"s manipulations. Othello loses faith in cold, hard facts: believes whatever he is told, hearing is believing . Employs misogynistic language: unnatural and animalistic descriptors, toad metaphors. Commits suicide on marriage bed, linking sex with death. Othello"s jealousy and proneness to manipulation seem to be his tragic flaws: cannot distinguish appearance from reality. Honest iago i am not what i am .
