Tuesday, April 7, 2020
201: The end of Iago
I don’t know if I am done talking about Othello (I might be) but I am done talking about IAGO. I will put up other videos after spring break but maybe those will be on THE TEMPST, our next and final work.
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This doesn't much follow what you have said but I was really enjoying Emilia's lines in the latter half of the play. She is so poetic, and sums things up well. She makes a lot of apt points about the relationships between women and men, the nature of jealousy, a Still, she's culpable because she helped Iago with the handkerchief and keeping that secret. And she doesn't just do it out of duty but she stoops to Iago's level and dishes out some horrible comments about Othello's blackness as well. Then again, she makes her service to her husband a point of pride and she does not seem to know the full extent of what Iago is doing. She brings some extreme clarity to conversations with Desdemona and also traverses these murky waters of conferring with her no- good husband.
ReplyDeleteIn Act 3 Scene 4 Emilia says, "But jealous souls will not be answered so/ They are not ever jealous for the cause, / But jealous for they're jealous. It is a monster/ Begot upon itself, born on itself". This serves to both hide the Iago's behind the scenes machinations of creating Othello's jealousy and foreshadow how Othello's jealousy will compound. The personification of jealousy as a monster reveals how much Othello looses control of his feelings and they gain a destructive life of their own. Emilia is very aware of the way emotions work similarly to how Iago is very aware of how people work- they make good foils of one another.
-Chloe Friedman
DeleteI really like Emilia and should spend more time with her — going though all of Iago’s main bits takes up all the time I have!
DeleteDoes Shakespeare hates marriage? Because both Iago and Othello kill their wives? This whole play doesn't praise love that much.
ReplyDeleteKrzysztof Szczepanik
Shakespeare was unhappily married and while he is great at writing people FALLING in love, his married characters never seem happy (except ironically Macbeth and his wife, who murder people together, and even they fall apart at the end)
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