page 38 lines 291-315
page 40 Lines 45-60
page 45-46 Lines 332-360 (Iago's soliloquy)
We watched the film version of the entire Act. If you were absent, read the synopses on the left hand column of each scene before you attempt to analyze these passages.
Test on these passages Monday. Ensure that you have notes on who is speaking, what is happening, key quotations, images and tone.
Remember that Act 2 supplies the complications which have arisen out of Act 1.
We reviewed Act 1:
Motifs: bestial imagery, order vs chaos, eye images and blindness references, logic vis reason, jealousy, appearance vs reality
Conflict: revenge, ability to stay calm under pressure, the ability to let our grievances go
Tone: All of Act 1 occurs in Venice at night. Secretive, deceitful, betrayal, hypocrisy, darkness, racist, hated
Setting: Venice and Cyprus
Characters: Othello, Desdemona, Iago, Emilia, Brabantio, Duke of Venice, Roderigo, Cassio, Montano, Bianca.
What complications arose during Act 2?
Make a list:
