Othello Mind Map
- Created by: millierice2301
- Created on: 25-04-18 14:51
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- 'Othello'
- Characters
- Othello
- 'I, like the base Indian, threw a pearl away.'
- 'Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men'
- 'She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.'
- 'Her reputation, which was once as white as Dian's visage, is now as black as mine own face.'
- 'Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate. Nor set down aught in malice.'
- Desdemona
- Protected in Venice by her senator father.
- 'My noble father, I do believe here a divided duty.
- Cassio
- 'Reputation! Reputation! Reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself.'
- Iago
- 'Beware, my lord, jealousy is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.'
- 'Even now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.'
- 'Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.'
- 'I hate the Moor...that 'twixt my sheets has done my office.'
- 'The Moor and your daughter are making the beast with two backs.'
- Emilia
- 'I nothing but to please his fantasy.'
- 'We are all but stomachs, and they are all but food.'
- 'The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.'
- Othello
- Context
- Coutezans in Venice operated legally- it was even taxed although women were still oppressed.
- Venice was a misogynist society, as well as racist- they did not appreciate Moors.
- Cyprus was the birthplace of Aphrodite- the Bay of Nicosia.
- 'Othelllo' written in the Renaissance period- Moors and black people were seen to be 'dark' and 'treacherous' because of their skin colour.
- Supported by Brabantio's quote: 'That thou hast...abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals.'
- Aristotelian tragedy- there is hamartia, agnorisis and catharsis.
- Themes
- Racism
- Misogyny
- Tragedy
- Warfare
- Jealousy
- Love Through the Ages
- Courtly love: Desdemona is of a much higher class than Othello.
- Tragic Love: Othello's hamartia and Iago's manipulation of it means that 'Othello' turns into a tragedy, as his true love for Desdemona will never be realised.
- Sexual Love: Iago makes explicit sexual references to Desdemona and Othello's relationship, to make Othello seem predatory.
- 'Your daughter is covered with a Barbary horse.'
- Characters
- Emilia
- 'I nothing but to please his fantasy.'
- 'We are all but stomachs, and they are all but food.'
- 'The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.'
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