ENGL 215 Lecture 12: Engl 215 Jan 31st
5 May 2019
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What are iago"s motives: revenge, likes to watch the world burn, thinks that othello slept with his wife, emilia, he loves desdemona, mad that othello promoted cassio over him. Text + sexuality: text is obsessed with sexuality, always talking about desdemona"s sexuality, ex. when he"s telling her father about her being with othello, he focuses on the fact that. Animal imagery: discusses sex with many images of animals, prime as goats, hot as monkeys, salt as wolves, etc. Iago speaks of cassio"s fake sexual dream about desdemona: speaks of how cassio felt him up in the process. Iago uses this mockery against him and warns him of losing his reputation doesn"t matter so much that she did it, but what people will say if they find out: running of the reins = having ghonorrhea. In some portrayals, desdemona resists othello, in others she doesn"t: a lot of sexual details ex.
