View Points of Othello

• AC Bradley: '"exceptionally noble and trustful"'
• AC Bradley: '"most romantic" of shakespeare's characters - exotic background / poetic'
• AC Bradley: 'Othello's feelings prevent him from thinking clearly'
• AC Bradley: 'Othello's jealousy is normal under the circumstances'
• AC Bradley: 'Othello never completely falls from nobility'
• AC Bradley: 'Audience should feel love + pity for Othello due to his nobility, capacity for love, suffering'
• AC Bradley: 'Iago is the "artist of evil"'
• AC Bradley: 'Iago is motivated by pride "power + superiority"'
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Iago didn't make Othello kill Desdemona out of jealousy, Iago causes it with "Superhuman art"'
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Othello was not predisposed to jealousy'
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Iago turns to evil to exercise "intellect"'
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Iago is "a being next to nothing"'
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Iago isn't motivated by anything, he is just looking for excuses for his evil (motive)'
• TS Elliot: 'Othello is not noble but self-dramatising'
• TS Elliot: 'Othello is delusional - not noble at all'
• FR Leavis: 'Othello's downfall is his own weakness, not the success of Iago's intellect'
• FR Leavis: 'Othello is vulnerable to jealousy'
• FR Leavis: 'Othello yields too quickly to jealousy'
• FR Leavis: 'Othello is tragically pathetic'