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Session 24 Notes
Notes for David O'Connor's 3/19/07 lecture on William Shakespeare's Othello, especially Acts 1-3 for PHIL 20214
William Shakespeare, Othello, especially Acts 1-3
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I. Recapping the course
II. Shakespeare’s use of vocabulary and names
A. Desdemona
B. Othello
C. Beastial vocabulary
1. Our propensity to reductiveness
III. A Problem with Commitment
A. Othello’s self-image
“My services which I have done the signory / Shall out-tongue his complaints. ‘Tis yet to know – / Which, when I know that boasting is an honor, / I shall promulgate – I fetch my life and being / From men of royal siege, and my demerits / May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune / As this that I have reached. For know, Iago, / But that I love the gentle Desdemona, / I would not my unhousèd free condition / Put into circumscription and confine / For the sea’s worth.” (I.2.18-28)
B. Nobility and freedom or marriage?
"My parts, my title, and my perfect soul / Shall manifest me rightly." (I.2.31-32)
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The Death of Desdemona by Eugene Delacroix, 1858
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