Loomba claims that Othello has a ‘capacity for tenderness as well as a propensity for violence’
AGREE:
‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them’ (A1S3)
‘Within these three days let me hear thee say that Cassio’s not alive’ (A3S3)
A.C Bradley describes Othello as ‘by far the most romantic figure among Shakespeare’s heroes’
AGREE:
‘My life upon her faith!’ (A1S3)
‘If it were now to die, ‘Twere now to be most happy’ (A2S1)
Frances E Dolan describes Othello as ‘a domestic tyrant’
AGREE:
‘He strikes her’ (A4S1)
‘That cunning whore of Venice that married with Othello’ (A4S2)
DISAGREE:
‘But that I love the gentle Desdemona’ (A1S2)
FR Leavis claims that ‘Othello yields with extraordinary promptness to suggestion’
AGREE:
‘How shall I murder him, Iago?’ (A4S1)
‘Within these three days let me hear thee say that Cassio’s not alive’ (A3S3)
EAJ Honigmann describes Othello as an ‘outsider…as a moor’
AGREE:
‘Is there not charms by which the property of youth and maidhood may be abused?’(A1S1) (Brabantio)
‘To fall in love with what she feared to look on?’ (A1S3) (Brabantio)
‘An old black ram/Is tupping your white ewe!’ (A1S1) (Iago)
Wilson Knight claims that Othello ‘loves emotion for emotion’s sake, luxuriates in it’
DISAGREE:
‘Let him do his spite’ (A1S2)
AGREE:
‘She gave me for my pains a world of sighs’ (A1S3)
