EN 3620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Reading F.C. Women, Misogyny, Boasting
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Recap: cultural/religious other, presence of turks, turkish threat of fleets, turks are present throughout play as nebulous religious threat (worried about turning turk or. Barbarous: concerned with racial otherness, like the merchant of venice - we are presented with a range of otherness (suitors), problem between "being" and "seeming, the difference of being something or seeming something. Iago is the ultimately unreadable (and perhaps motiveless) entity. Is he more trusting and na ve than other characters in the play: medieval travelogues. Similarities between sentiments towards women in both othello and hamlet: early modern misogynist texts had lots of critique towards women, this play presents us with very popular mysogynistic, the play argues against believing this narrative about women. Iago thinks women can only be fair or wise: because of iago"s dishonesty, the play invests in the dichtomy between virtuous and loose women and so when iago shows that desdemona is not perfect, it automatically means that.
