CRITICS
THE CHARACTER OF IAGO
CRITICAL OPINION NAME OF SOURCE AGREE/DISAGREE
CRITIC
“if Iago were a E.A.J ‘Introduction’ Contrasting: “The character of
straightforward villain Honigmann Othello, 2001 Iago is so conducted, that he is
he would arouse little from the first scene to the last
fellow feeling in his hated and despised.” Dr Johnson
audiences, yet of
course he is anything
but straighforward”
“The motive-hunting S.T Coleridge Published notes
of motiveless
malignity”
“we are Bernard “Devouring
simultaneously aware O’Keeffe Discourse:
of both Iago’s Swallowing
fabrication and the Stories in
plausibility of his Othello”
narratives”
“Iago exploits his Kiernan Ryan Unknown
devilish charisma and
seductive intimacy
with the audience to
make us complicit
with him, to implicate
us in his hatred and
entrapment of
Othello, whether we
like it or not.”
“he is the play’s chief E.A.J ‘Introduction’ Iago is the most consistently
humourist” Honigmann Othello, 2001 humorous character. His humour
is demonstrated well through a
crude and nonsensical
conversation with Desdemona in
A2S1.
The two clown scenes in A3 are
also intended to provide comic
relief, although their appearance
is brief.
, THE CHARACTER OF OTHELLO
CRITICAL OPINION NAME OF SOURCE AGREE/DISAGREE
CRITIC
“Othello is at war with Andrew “Men should be
himself and cannot McCulloch what they
win” seem”:
Character and
role in Othello.
“Othello, the black Andrew “Men should be
man considered by McCulloch what they
some to be the enemy seem”:
within, discovers that Character and
he is his own enemy” role in Othello.
“The last two acts are Bonnie Greer Critical Essay on The last two acts see Othello
the unravelling of the Othello’s deteriorate beyond redemption,
mind of Othello” Jealousy leading him to kill the woman he
loves in a deluded act of
righteousness, before he
subsequently kills himself.
However, it could be argued that in
his final soliloquy, Othello regains his
autonomy and dies with dignity.
“Emotion excites his A.C Bradley Shakespearean
imagination, but Tragedy
confuses and dulls his
intellect”
“a great man naturally A.C Bradley Shakespearean
modest but fully Tragedy
conscious of his worth”
“Othello is like a hero Helen Gardener Unknown
of the ancient world in
that he is not a man
like us, but a man
recognised as
extraordinary”
“His love and his Thomas A Short View of
jealousy are no part of Rhymer Tragedy
a soldiers character
unless for comedy”
THE CHARACTER OF IAGO
CRITICAL OPINION NAME OF SOURCE AGREE/DISAGREE
CRITIC
“if Iago were a E.A.J ‘Introduction’ Contrasting: “The character of
straightforward villain Honigmann Othello, 2001 Iago is so conducted, that he is
he would arouse little from the first scene to the last
fellow feeling in his hated and despised.” Dr Johnson
audiences, yet of
course he is anything
but straighforward”
“The motive-hunting S.T Coleridge Published notes
of motiveless
malignity”
“we are Bernard “Devouring
simultaneously aware O’Keeffe Discourse:
of both Iago’s Swallowing
fabrication and the Stories in
plausibility of his Othello”
narratives”
“Iago exploits his Kiernan Ryan Unknown
devilish charisma and
seductive intimacy
with the audience to
make us complicit
with him, to implicate
us in his hatred and
entrapment of
Othello, whether we
like it or not.”
“he is the play’s chief E.A.J ‘Introduction’ Iago is the most consistently
humourist” Honigmann Othello, 2001 humorous character. His humour
is demonstrated well through a
crude and nonsensical
conversation with Desdemona in
A2S1.
The two clown scenes in A3 are
also intended to provide comic
relief, although their appearance
is brief.
, THE CHARACTER OF OTHELLO
CRITICAL OPINION NAME OF SOURCE AGREE/DISAGREE
CRITIC
“Othello is at war with Andrew “Men should be
himself and cannot McCulloch what they
win” seem”:
Character and
role in Othello.
“Othello, the black Andrew “Men should be
man considered by McCulloch what they
some to be the enemy seem”:
within, discovers that Character and
he is his own enemy” role in Othello.
“The last two acts are Bonnie Greer Critical Essay on The last two acts see Othello
the unravelling of the Othello’s deteriorate beyond redemption,
mind of Othello” Jealousy leading him to kill the woman he
loves in a deluded act of
righteousness, before he
subsequently kills himself.
However, it could be argued that in
his final soliloquy, Othello regains his
autonomy and dies with dignity.
“Emotion excites his A.C Bradley Shakespearean
imagination, but Tragedy
confuses and dulls his
intellect”
“a great man naturally A.C Bradley Shakespearean
modest but fully Tragedy
conscious of his worth”
“Othello is like a hero Helen Gardener Unknown
of the ancient world in
that he is not a man
like us, but a man
recognised as
extraordinary”
“His love and his Thomas A Short View of
jealousy are no part of Rhymer Tragedy
a soldiers character
unless for comedy”
