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Othello – the character

Othello – the character. Creative Critical Response. Bradley on Othello. Almost faultless Brought down by Iago Relationship between Othello and Desdemona would have been happy were it not for Iago Othello is an outsider and newly married – both make him feel vulnerable

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Othello – the character

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  1. Othello – the character Creative Critical Response

  2. Bradley on Othello • Almost faultless • Brought down by Iago • Relationship between Othello and Desdemona would have been happy were it not for Iago • Othello is an outsider and newly married – both make him feel vulnerable • Before Iago’s intervention, Othello showed self-control and no jealousy

  3. Leavis on Othello • Contests Bradley’s idealising of Othello • The play is named after Othello – not Iago – therefore he is the protagonist • Othello is jealous by nature • Othello sees himself as a man of action – his is too self-dramatising and self-approving • By the end Othello has not really learnt – he contemplates the spectacle of himself , not Desdemona

  4. Is Othello a racist play? • Thomas Rymer : perceived the moral of Othello to be ‘a caution of all Maidens of Quality how, without their parents’ consent, they run away with Blackamoors’

  5. Is Othello a misogynistic play or is Shakespeare a feminist? • Thomas Rymer perceived the play as ‘This may be a warning to all good Wives, that they look well to their Linnen.’

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