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Imagery and Symbolism - Coggle Diagram
Imagery and Symbolism
Animal Imagery
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'He Degrades the love that othello and desdemona share "an old black ram is tupping your white ewe"/ course bestial images "youll have your daughter covered with a barbary horse"
He Similarly uses vulgar and offensive imagery when, in an attempt to infuriate othello he depicts the imagined affair between desdemona and cassio in terms of animal behaviour "as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys"
Following Temptation scene, othello emplys the animal imagery associated with iago declaring he "would rather be a toad and live upon the vapous of a dungen" than share desdemona
After striking Desdemona, Othello alsmost insane with jealously leaves the ventian envoys muttering "Goats and Monkeys"
The Coarsening of othellos lanuage reflects Iagos Controll of his mind - the moors once noble mind has been poisoned and corrupted
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Poisoning Imagery
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We learn that Iagos Jealousy towards Othello is so strong it "Doth like a poisous mineral gnaw my inwards"
These references to poisin are appropiate of iago, whose actions are swift icidous and deadly
Othellos mind is poisoned with iagos fowl thoughts and he now seeks to kill his wife in the bed that he thinks she has contaminated or poisoned with her lust.
The audience will be well aware of the cruel irony that the real posioner IAGO has already poisoned othellos mind
Stormy Imagery
Storm at sea symoblises points to the storm od destructive passion that will engulf othellos mind and soul.
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Storm may symbolise the choas iago is bringing for othello as he underminds his faith in desdemona "when i love thee not, chaos is come again".
While the storm at sea briefly seperates Cassio from Othello he will soon lose the moor on an even more dangerous sea of suspicion, jealousy and anger " I have lost him on a dangerous sea"
Much of the storm imagery is charged with irony. Othello delights in the calm after the storm, now he is reunited with desdemona. "O my soul's joy, if after every tempest comes such calmness, may the winds blow till they have wakened death"
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Dramtic Function
We think about how shakespear potrays the conflict mental and physcial, Contrast between characters and the Contrast throughout the play of one character.
Tension and the effects on the audeince, variety how shakespear maintains audience interest and context what has happened and what is about to happen