C LIT 30B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Roderigo, Prithee
13 Jun 2015
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Format: fill in the blank (basic comprehension) Tuesday in class review practice questions and checklists posted this weekend the handkerchief. A fetish object - attribute quality to it (animating it) Small, white, projection of desire - connection to veil in cervantes. Integrity of marriage (union of wife and husband) Logic of substitution - object of substitution (cassio with othello?) D: i pray talk me of cassio - D: --- a man that all this time the handkerchief. Desdemona to emilia: tonight / lay on my bed my wedding sheets (iv. ii,104-5) Losing virginity, counter-intuitive to use the sheets again. 1. reminder of her purity she brought into the marriage a. b. testimony to her purity the stained sheet c. O: that handkerchief which i so loved and gave thee, / thou gav"st to cassio . D: no she can"t confess what she has not done handkerchief. 1st story - mother gave father, this story changed.
