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I love thee not, chaos is come again." Roderigo's love for Desdemona ultimately ends in tragedy as the infatuation is one-sided and leaves Roderigo open to lago's manipulation Emilia has a blind love for lago and is clearly eager to please him "my wayward husband hath a hundred times wooed me steal it" lago's willingness to exploit love and friendship. York Notes Recent Views of Othello - https://www.yorknotes.com/alevel/english-literature/othello-advanced/study/critical-history/03 030000 recent-views In 1904, Bradley presented Othello as 'the most romantic figure among Shakespeare's heroes ... [he] does not belong to our world'. Bradley's Othello is a man of mystery, who has fallen deeply in love with Desdemona and shouldn't be blamed for his intense and jealous actions. T. S. Eliot ('Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca', 1927) accused Othello of self-dramatisation and says the Moor experiences a 'terrible exposure of human weakness' F. R. Leavis ('Diabolic Intellect and the Noble Hero', 1952) also rejected Bradley's reading of Othello's character. He argued that the tragic protagonist was responsible for his own downfall. WymCol English blog of Critical quotes for Othello- https://wymcolenglishblog.home.blog/2019/08/31/critic-quotes-for-othello/ 'lago is not acting from personal jealousy of Cassio and Othello, but from a much more general stance of simple hatred for what is good.' - R. A. Foakes lago's general hatred of all the other characters has many possible explanations. As discussed in class, he may be in love with Desdemona, jealous of Othello's supposed affair with Emilia or more generally, a machiavellian villain. 'Desdemona, as she appears in relation to Othello, is not so much individual woman as the Divinity of Love.' - Maud Bodkin This theory shows that Othello may have fallen passionately in love with anyone perceived to be perfect by society as he wanted to prove himself in society because of the attitudes towards his race. It could suggest that Desdemona wasn't truly loved by Othello and it was a concept that he loved. Love, Hate, Conspiracy and Racism in Othello PDF "Despite all his accomplishments and the status acquired in the society, there are people like lago and Rodrigo who see him as an inferior person and are jealous of his stature." This makes him vulnerable to jealousy and disbelief that Desdemona truly loves him. Links to class discussion and how Othello has adopted racist societal attitudes and appears to have internalised them. Tommy Chen: "lago in the play uses very sexist and offensive language because he believes women are annoying sex obejects" and this links to the different views of women that are presented in Othello by the different characters and lago's typical misogynist stance towards them despite his many explanations for his chaos causing being linked to love for either Emilia or Desdemona. https://epicminerchen.medium.com/the-role-and-status-of-women-is-explored-in-shak espeares-othello-8332772d39c2 Race and Patriarchy in Othello PDF Othello "acts upon Desdemona in an oppressive way; he sees her as subject to him merely because she is female." links back to Love, Hate, Conspiracy and Racism in Othello PDF as Othello's internalised racist views are implemented onto Desdemona as a consequence of her love for him. It also shows the clear sexism towards their love as she is oppressed by him within their relationship and the love is not as true and pure as it is presented at the beginning of the play. Othello also addresses the sleeping Desdemona as having skin which is "as smooth as monumental alabaster" (5.2.5). As Bate (1989) affirms, she has been "metamorphosed into an object" Desdemona is desperate to regain Othello's love and is "willing to subscribe to any view of herself" Links to Marilyn French (Shakespeare's Division of Experience, Abacus, 1982) explores the masculine and misogynistic value system at work in Othello. In spite Desdemona's assertiveness in choosing her own husband (which appears traditionally masculine), French suggests Desdemona 'accepts her culture's dictum that she must be obedient to males' found on the York Notes website.