Tuesday 19 April 2016

An even bigger question


A. C. Bradley Shakespearean Tragedy (Palgrave Macmillan)

 ‘Othello’s nature is all of one piece. His trust where he trusts is absolute. Hesitation is almost impossible to him. He is extremely self-reliant and decides and acts instantaneously. If stirred to indignation … he answers with one lightning stroke. Love, if he loves, must be to him the heaven where either he must live or bear no life. If such a passion as jealousy seizes him, it will swell into a well-nigh incontrollable flood.’


Having read Act III how far do you agree with A.C. Bradley’s view of Othello?

 

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