othello

• McEnvoy - “living the life of a chivalric warrior in a world run by money and self-interest”
• F.R Leavis - “The nobly massive man of action”
• F.R Leavis - “habit of self approving self-dramatisation is an essential element in [his] make-up”
• Calderwood - “Othello’s self exonerating speeches…are central to his concept of self”
• Wilson-Knight - “The Othello music” sounds sublime but is ultimately “exaggerated false rhetoric”
• N. Sanders - Othello's speech is an “instinctive utterance springing unbidden from the subconscious"
• Leavis - he is an "egotist"
• Coleridge - “There is no ferocity in Othello”
• Gruesser - he is both victim and victimiser
• Loomba - a "near schizophrenic hero", his final speech portraying that split: "he becomes simultaneously the Christian and the Turk, the keeper of the state and its opponent.”
• Elliot - Othello does not obtain redemption even though Othello himself believes he is honourable as he acted accordingly to the circumstances of female infidelity
• Leavis - heroic way of seeing himself in widescreen
• Leavis - the tragedy is due to Othello's shortcomings