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Many Motifs of Othello
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Many Motifs of Othello
Sight and Blindness.
Relation to Elizabethan chain of beings.
Quotes from Text.
Refrences
- Othello continually demands visual proof in matters of war, yet is convinced over and over of his wives infidelity without any visual proof.
- Othello strips Cassio of his title based on non-visual proof of his affair with Desdemona.
- Othello accuses his wife of infidelity although he never actually see's her acts of 'infidelity'.
- Emilia does not see what her husband is doing to Othello, and says that she will disown the person who tortures Othello.
- Desdemona does not see that Iago is making her actions look very sneaky in Othello's eyes.
- Cassio does not see that Iago is making him seem un-loyal to Othello, and very irresponsible.
- At the end of the play the veil is lifted off the eyes of all the characters when they realize that Iago has been deceiving each and every one of them. This results in the death and killing of innocent people, and the imprisonment of the devious Iago.
"Humans, however, were capable of both intellectual sin and physical sins such as lust and gluttony if they let their animal appetites overrule their divine reason. Humans also possessed sensory attributes: sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell. Unlike angels, however, their sensory attributes were limited by physical organs. (They could only know things they could discern through the five senses.) The highest-ranking human being was the King."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being
- Slide in student shared.
- (I.iii.250-252) "saw Othello's visage in his mind,/ And to his honors and his valiant parts/ Did I my soul and for tuned consecrate." -Desdemona on how Othello's "blackness" Is of little importance to her.
- (V.ii.373-375) "Look on the tragic loading of this bed./ This is they work. The object poisons sight./ Let it be hid" -Lodovico
- (I.iii.19-20) "a pageant/ To keep us in false gaze" This act consists entirely of people staring out to sea, waiting on the arrival of the ships.
Motifs in Othello.
Visuals.
- Sight and Blindness
- Plants
- Animals
- Hell
- Demons/Monsters
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-Megan
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