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Alevel English Literature Pearson Edexcel Othello Shakespeare Critical Quotes/Critics - AO5 Quotes on: Othello, Iago, Desdemona, Emilia, Cassio, Roderigo and some themes like Love, Tragedy, Jealousy, Deception. Includes some AO3 (Context)

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Othello Critical Quotes

Othello:

‘Shakespeare had portrayed Othello the very opposite to a jealous man’ - Coleridge

‘Othello is both a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance’ - Loomba

‘Othello is a victim of racial beliefs precisely as he becomes an agent of misogynistic ones’ - Loomba

‘a being next to the devil’ – Coleridge

‘there is no Othello without Iago’ - O’Toole

‘Othello is a man of action, not a thinker. In his first speech he subconsciously acknowledges the
social pressure he is under’ - Caryl Phillips

‘Othello feels constantly threatened and profoundly insecure’ - Caryl Phillips

‘Othello is a sympathetic and noble character whose downfall is created by a being of pure evil’ - AC
Bradley

‘Othello is responsible for his own downfall’ - T.S Eliot

‘Othello has a fall from prosperity to wretchedness’ - Kastan

‘The noble Othello is now seen as tragically pathetic’ - F.R. Leavis

‘Othello is an alien and a black villain in a white society’ - Cowhig

‘The generals black skin proclaims him an outsider in Venice’ - M.Mangam

‘whose noble nature was wrought on by an accomplished and artful villain’ - Coleridge

‘Othello does not obtain redemption although Othello believes he is honourable as he acted
accordingly to the circumstances of female infidelity’ - Eliot

‘Othello is the moving controlling factor of the play as its tragic hero’ - Shahriar



Iago:

‘Iago is a seductive character, who is able to get the audience to collude with him’ - E. A. J.
Honigmann

‘His humour seems to make him cleverer than his victims’ - E. A. J. Honigmann

‘Iago has all of the psychological traits of a psychopath’ - Fred West

‘Iago is the presence of misogynist discourse in the Renaissance’ - Valerie Wayne

‘Iago simply exploits a weakness that already existed in Othello's character’ – F. R Leavis

‘Motiveless malignity’ - Coleridge

‘the audience become complicit in Iago's intention’ - Sean McEvoy

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