A Powerpoint summary of Shakespeare's 'Othello' including plot, quotes with analysis, context and critical interpretations
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Unit 1 - Drama
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A Powerpoint summary of Shakespeare's 'Othello' including plot, quotes with analysis, context and critical interpretations
This powerpoint covers everything you might need for an Othello English Literature A level essay with A01, A02, A03 and A05.
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,Othello: as a tragedy
Typical conventions of tragedy: serious, dramatic, tragic hero, death, religion, s
end, hamartia, deceit, fate
Shape of tragedy
3. Climax
4. Anagnorisis
2.
Peripeteia 5.
Catastrophe
1.
Incentive 6. Resolution
moment
,Aristotle’s Tragedy
Modern day tragedy has moved away from Aristotle’s definition.
The action must move toward catastrophe and involves peripetiea (reversal of
fortunes.
The hero must have status.
The tragic hero is neither completely virtuous or evil. Downfall is brought about b
hamartia.
It is a battle against fate- therefore we empathize with the hero.
The hero faces anagnorisis (a self-realization).
The audience will purge feelings of ‘pity and fear’ this is referred to as catharsis.
, Tragedy through time
Ancient Greece: 700-480B.C. in ancient Greece the protagonist was the character wh
suffering constituted a central part to the tragedy. The protagonist has hamartia, ofte
result of hubris which brings down divine punishment on the protagonist. This fits with
Greek religion which saw the gods as selfish and vengeful. this allows the audience to
connect with the protagonist as they too have a lack of power over life and destiny. At
end of the Greek tragedy comes the anagnorisis: the tragic hero’s recognition of their
in judgement.
The Middle Ages: 476A.D.- 1492 tragedy at this point became simplified. It was argu
that tragedy wasn’t possible in Christianity as it didn’t fit with the ideologies of the
religion. Tragedy instead became a moral message about how the ‘turning wheel of fo
will bring about the fall of kings and princes who put their faith in earthly power. (Cha
The Renaissance: 1300-1600 Sidney (1581) believed Tragedy acted as a warning to ty
how their crimes would be revealed and punished by God however the renaissance
playwrights took a more skeptical and political slant e.g. King Lear, which defies any
notion God rewards the just. Othello fits into this time period.
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