| 3 points for Trust and betrayal | Trust transforms to deceit O&DO is too trusting of II feels betrayed by O |
| What is the A02 point for deceit between O&D? | Structural demise from climax of love to bathos of death and ruination |
| What does D describe O as? | ‘Noble Moor”My souls joy!’ |
| What determines their love more than physicality for D? | ‘I see Othello’s visage in my mind’I am ‘true in mind’ |
| How does O initially describe D? | ‘I love the gentle Desdemona”she gave me for my pains a world of sighs”she loved me for the dangers I had passed’ |
| How does the endearing language change? | Becomes hyperbolic and dramatic |
| What contrasting quotes does O call D? | ‘*****”she was a fool!”to loathe her’ |
| What quotes link to the ruination of marriage? | ‘O curse of marraige’ |
| Where in the play is O’s turning point against D? | Act 3 scene 3 ‘I think my wife is honest, and think she is not’ |
| Quote O uses to describe D’s metaphorical transformation? | ‘Her name that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face’ |
| What is the A03 link for position of D? | She put herself in danger going against the unconventional means of marrying a black man. James 1 rule- time of unrest ‘moors in realm…annoyance of people’ stereotypical racist view |
| What is the A04? | The Book of Sir Thomas More ‘nation of barbarous temper’ ‘with their detested knives against your throats’ 1596-1601 |
| What is the A05? | Neill ‘to ignore race is to efface something fundamental to the tragedy”Old stereotype lurks’ Magnam |
| What is the A02 for O is too trusting of I? | I’s use of powerful and persuasive rhetoric reveals O’s hamartia . |
| Examples of I’s rhetoric which creates a great dramatic irony | ”what I have spoken comes from my love””honest…just…good””I am bound to you forever” my thoughts ‘say they are vile and false as where’s that palace whereinto foul things” |
| Contrasting quotes to show O’s weak diction and lack of lexical space | ”precious villain””forget your duty””honestly and love doth mince this matter” |
| What is A03 link? | Typical of Aristotle tragedy- ends in catastrophe and protagonist must have a fatal flaw- ‘error of human frailty’ |
| What is the A04 link? | Cordelia in ‘King Lear’ also make a fatal flaw in being banished due to not flattering Lear and obeying him which ultimately leads to her death |
| What is the A05 link? | O is psychologically manipulated unleashing arguably innate aggressive tendancies |
| What is the A02 link for I feels betrayed by O? | Honesty is depicted through the structure of a soliloquy |
| Quotes to show I’s frustration? | ‘His soul is enfetted to her love”I play the villain”emesh them all’ |
| I quotes to show jealousy towards C? | ‘ I know my price… I am worth no worse a place’ ‘mere prattle without practise”i follow him to serve my turn upon him”will wear my heart on my sleeve’ |
| What is the A03 link? | I challenges the great chain of being and disrupts the natural order and this could be how conflict ensues |
| What is the A04 link? | Richard 111 soliloquy who is also a Machiavellian villain ‘ I am determined to prove a villain’ ‘ I am rudely stamped’ |
| What is the A05 link? | MARX- Iago disturbs societal hierarchy and therefore the cause of conflict and manipulation |
| What is the A05 critic for I feels betrayed by O? | ‘Jealousy trains us to look with intensity not accuracy’ |
Othello – Trust & betrayal
September 12, 2019