EN 3535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Political Correctness, Speedstep, Fairy
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Othello uses words to move beyond the charged language of stereotypes; his words are eloquent, humanizing, create love, shows his nobility. Language defines our reality; we tell stories to make sense of our experience; part of our experience of the theatre is verbal and part of our experience of the theatre is spectacle/visual. Shakespeare"s interested in the relationship between these two things, an inextricable pair. I(cid:374) othello, he"s i(cid:374)te(cid:396)ested i(cid:374) ho(cid:449) la(cid:374)guage (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e used to la(cid:271)el, separate, classify, define as well as build bridges between people (disembodied voice) Shakespeare is interested in creating worlds through language and how it creates a(cid:374) i(cid:373)age i(cid:374) the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d"s e(cid:455)e (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:272)a(cid:374) the(cid:374) go o(cid:374) to define our understanding of the character. Iago is one such character that shakespeare uses to create a visual i(cid:373)age i(cid:374) othello"s (cid:373)i(cid:374)d"s e(cid:455)e; ho(cid:449) fa(cid:396) (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:373)(cid:455) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds go to (cid:272)(cid:396)eati(cid:374)g chaos, nightmare, tragedy.
