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Othello Textual analysis – Take home * * * I n Shakespeare’s Othello, the protagonist, Othello, changes his attitude towards his wife, and indeed all women, through the course of the play, initially viewing her as the nurturing figure to later perceiving her to have taken on the completely opposite role of ‘the temptress’. Two speeches, in particular, Act I, scene iii, (126-169) & Act V, scene ii, (1-23), spoken by Othello, not only reflect the prevalent themes of the play but enable the audience to recognise the transition of feelings he undergoes in regards to his wife, Desdemona. ... Throughout history women have been marginalised on the basis of their sex with traditional female gender roles having two extremes, neither being very positive. ... It is what women must give in return for their ‘being looked after’ that has created the two traditional roles; the male will provide the female with shelter, food and security and in return he needs just two things from them: to be cared about and sexual fulfilment. ... In the two speeches by Othello, all of this is expressed. In both speeches love is conveyed but in each speech it is seen and acted upon quite differently, and in the second speech jealousy is very distinct whereas the first speech jealousy is not an issue. ... (1sp,126). ... He proclaims “she loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her, that she did pity them”(1sp,166-167) but reading into these lines further, the basis of their relationship does not appear so sound. ... He tells the court this is not true and in reality his stories of adventure and excitement, and love for her “…is the only witchcraft I have used”(1sp,168). ... These two men, especially Iago, who are so familiar with “the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on” know just how to conduct this emotion, foreign to Othello, deep into his heart in order to seek revenge. ... In both speeches Othello has power over Desdemona. ... In the first speech Othello has the power to control Desdemona’s emotions: “I did consent, And often did beguile her of her tears”(1sp,154-155) and in the second speech, he has power over her life – whether she lives or dies, “When I have plucked thy rose, I cannot give it vital growth again…”(2sp,13-15) therefore both of the speeches portrays Desdemona’s gender as weaker and more needy. Desdemona does not witness either of Othello’s speeches about her, neither when he identifies her as a nurturer, in his first speech, or when he associates her with a temptress, in the second speech. ... Although observed differently by her husband, Desdemona’s feelings, towards him, remain intact as after both positive and negative speeches she remains loving and faithful. After Othello’s first speech, where she is permitted to speak, she gives an intelligent and emotive speech to her father, citing her mother’s behaviour as a model for her own: “…You (Brabantio) are lord of all my duty, I am hitherto you daughter. |
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