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Othello Critics- Characters (Othello (Loomba (Fantasy of interracial love,…
Othello Critics- Characters
Iago
Nuttal
Tragic joy
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Enjoyed discxomfort
Honigmann
A complex and divided theatrical response
Liar, betrayer, mental torturer
Anything but straightforward
One of Shakespeare's great criminal characters
He is the plays chief humorist
Godlike sense of power
Cleverness should not be exaggerated
Emilia
Honigmann
Emilia's love of Desdemona is Iago's undoing
Loomba
A place for female deviance
(Venice)
Female 'openness' was dangerous
Othello
Bradley
The story of one person, the hero
The powerlessness of man
Persons of high degree
(Tragedy in Shakespeare)
Leavis
No tragic self-discovery
Tragically pathetic
Loomba
Fantasy of interracial love
Nightmare of racial hatred and male violence
Older black soldier
'Unnatural' relationship
A victim of racial beliefs precisely because he becomes an agent of misogynist ones
Typed as godless, bestial and hideous
Desdemona
Honigmann
Emilia's love of Desdemona is Iago's undoing
Loomba
Inherent duplicity of woman
Young, white, well-born woman
A place for female deviance
Female 'openness' was dangerous
A warning to disobedient daughters