Othello Critic Quotes

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  • Othello Critic Quotes
    • Gardner
      • The ending has a "sense of completeness" which makes it "the most beautiful in Shakespearian tragedy" - structure, characterisation
    • Phillips
      • "Othello feels constantly threatened and profoundly insecure" - Othello, jealousy, manipulation
    • Jardine
      • "Desdemona has become a stereotype of female passivity" - Desdemona, women, power
    • Coleridge
      • Iago is "next to the Devil who looks for excuses to be evil" - Iago, motives, jealousy
    • Fred West
      • Describing Iago as "Mister Evil" is "such a limited view of Iago" and it "is such an injustice to the complexity of his character" - Iago, motives, jealousy
    • Eliot
      • Othello is a "terrible exposure of human weakness" - Othello, strength, power
    • Hall
      • Desdemona is "so selflessly devoted that she cannot acknowledge imperfection in her husband" - women, marriage, Desdemona, manipulation

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