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)
‘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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