- Grade: HSC
- Subject: English Advanced
- Resource type: Notes
- Written by: N/A
- Year uploaded: 2021
- Page length: 7
- Subject: English Advanced
Resource Description
Othello Questions
CHARACTERS
You must be able to discuss the following when it comes
to characters:
Othello:
1. The real tragedy of Othello is that Iago remains largely ignored and unpunished at
the end of the play. Compare this issue in two versions of Othello.
2. Shakespeare provides archetypal situations that time has done nothing to change.
Compare this issue in two versions of Othello.
3. This a play about the outsider but is anyone ever on the inside?
• a tragic hero? (does he recognise his flaws and gain self- knowledge?)
• his nobility (is he a good man?) / strengths & weaknesses / virtues & flaws
• his relationship with Desdemona & treatment of her
• his manipulation by Iago and transformation into a jealous brute
• the extent to which he is responsible for the tragedy which occurs at the end of the play
• our level of sympathy for him
Iago:
• the real ‘hero’ of the action?
• flaws and virtues?
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