Lecture: Othello and shame Soul of Oths jealousy is disconcert: rarely reflects anything on Cass Iago is agent of discredit: motivated by it, acts to move it He is psychomachia: allegorical portrayal of discompose within the head Iago: forerunner of lit of existentialism, improviser of power (Greenblatt) His job application spurned without consideration, very public dismissal, cant lick wounds in private Thinks hes been cuckolded: jealous discredit, loss of intimate ownership But this is inconsistent with Oths sexual idealism and later shock when diethylstilbestrol lets him down Ren pride ground on sexual and professional status At subject matter of Othello is the fertility of shame Iago believes Oth has doubly usurped his position, and his fear of gaze of others is authorised sign of shame e.g. for doves to peck at; conceals himself totally e.g. I am not what I am But use up not feel degraded before an obvious lowly (Rod) Believes absolute egoism is only way, conscience is an absurdity Iagos personal shame = becomes morally shameless as shame breeds shamelessness as well as further shame Thus Iago becomes spartan dog, paralleling Oth fall If Iago works on suggestion, does he rely on a meaning collected in the minds of others / paranoia? Bra also affected by shame: dishonoured patriarch, disembodied voice of Iago in shadows, Bra on balcony in dressing gown = emblem of exposure Bra dies because of shame and grief brought on by Iago e.g.
Heros finale at altar in Much Ado amazement of Cass is shame at getting drunk, Iago stage manages this into alcoholism and brawl, says you ordain be shamed forever Iago not yet plagued Oth with allusions to Dess adultery Shame is strangely impersonal suggestion, and Iagos psychomatic role would have been unmistakable to Elizabethans Med world put violence on hereafter of soul in heaven Ren afterlife was felt here on earth in spirit e.g. Mobray in Rich II painted clay Shame makes Cass reluctant to...
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