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Sunday, September 8, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
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Ah Othello: epitome of nobility, driven to the depths of misery by evil manipulation. Described by eminent Shakespearian scholar A.C. Bradley as "the most romantic of all Shakespeare's heroes" and "the greatest poet of them all". As his beloved wife Desdemona perishes beneath his hand, we feel the most intense sympathy: here is a good man whose true love has been twisted, shoved unjustly towards murder. Why - he's hardly guilty at all!
That's the traditional reading. But what Othello Syndrome argues is that Othello's nobility is an illusion, that we labour under a wantonly blind reading of his actions - his romance actually disturbing, violent and controlling. Here, Othello's manipulation by Iago is not a monstrous perversion of Othello's good nature, but a light tap that knocks down a house of cards; exposing this oh-so-admirable nobility as a symptom of internalised misogyny, pent-up violence and a sociopathic possessiveness.
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