OTHELLO
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- Created on: 16-02-24 11:31
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- Key Themes IN OTHELLO
- LOVE
- Domestic Tragedy - LOVE is destroyed by HATE
- Love + Gender Roles
- Brabantio Masculinity + Femininity (Emilia + Iago, Desdemona + Othello, Bianca + cASSIO)
- Love for Social Order and Hierarchy
- Masculinity Reputation
- Platonic Love
- Emilia + Desdemona
- Love + Gender Roles
- Domestic Tragedy - LOVE is destroyed by HATE
- JEALOUSY
- OBSESSION
- Obsession with Revenge
- Iago's revenge on Othello + Cassio is the violence of the entire plot
- Obsession with Power
- Masculinity has a desperation to have power over each other and females
- Obsession with Reputation
- Othello commits suicide due to the judgement he receives from society for killing his wife
- Obession stems from social hierarchy, often with the power of females being undermined
- Obsession with Revenge
- REVENGE
- Presented as DISHONOURABLE throughout the play
- Othello is degraded
- presented as destructive, unnatural and power hungry
- only one who survives to the end of the play
- HEROINE
- presented as destructive, unnatural and power hungry
- Othello is degraded
- Presented as DISHONOURABLE throughout the play
- LOVE
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