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Othello, Acts II-IV “The complications”

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Page 1: Othello, Acts II-IV “The complications”. Terms Freytag’s pyramid Rising action Complication(s) Irony Hamartia vs. ‘tragic flaw’

Othello, Acts II-IV

“The complications”

Page 2: Othello, Acts II-IV “The complications”. Terms Freytag’s pyramid Rising action Complication(s) Irony Hamartia vs. ‘tragic flaw’

Terms

• Freytag’s pyramid• Rising action• Complication(s)• Irony• Hamartia vs. ‘tragic flaw’

Page 3: Othello, Acts II-IV “The complications”. Terms Freytag’s pyramid Rising action Complication(s) Irony Hamartia vs. ‘tragic flaw’

The action of a tragedy(Freytag’s Pyramid)

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What are the sources of conflict in Othello?

• How do self-government and self-fashioning figure into the complications?

• How does Iago cause complications?• How do the main plot and the sub-plot work

together?

Page 5: Othello, Acts II-IV “The complications”. Terms Freytag’s pyramid Rising action Complication(s) Irony Hamartia vs. ‘tragic flaw’

What’s the deal with the handkerchief?

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How are women portrayed?

• Evidence for how Desdemona is portrayed

• Evidence for how Emilia is portrayed

• Bianca

• Vives, “Education of a Christian Woman”

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What will bring about Othello’s downfall?

• “Tragic flaw”—theory that there is something in the hero that brings about her/his downfall. Implication is that it’s in her/his control to change this.

• “Hamartia”– Aristotelian term—the weakness, error, misstep, bad judgment, or whatever that brings the hero down. Integral to his/her character—may not necessarily be a bad thing but has a tragic result