Othello; An Historical and Comparative Study Volume 2.cElmer Edgar Stoll
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Author: Elmer Edgar Stoll
Number of Pages: 38 pages
Published Date: 13 Sep 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231215647
File Name: Othello;.An.Historical.and.Comparative.Study.Volume.2.pdf
Download Link: Othello; An Historical and Comparative Study Volume 2
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... acter of either, --what virtues, what trust and love, are these?1 Even "stupidity" (a suggestion which despoils the hero of his tragic dignity and state) will not save the character of one who knows not right from wrong, a devil from an angel of light. Avez-vous de son coeur si peu de connaissance? Discernez-vous si mal le crime et l'innocence? cries Racine's Aricie, much to the point, to her lover's father, though not, of course, before the curse has been uttered and heard. So in rounder, less delicate terms Emilia reproaches the Moor, and the Moor reproaches himself, though not one instant before the worst comes to the worst and the lady herself lies dead. But the critics undertake psychologically to explain and defend what happens (luckily unexplained and undefended) only in old plays or old stories--that, like Theseus, Potiphar, or Prcetus, a man should believe, in the hour of destiny, what slanders he is told. The other old plays and stories, indeed, are less improbable; for Potiphar or Prtetus trusts his wife rather than his son, whereas Othello, giving only the stranger a hearing, trusts the stranger rather than both wife and friend. On the strength of the convention, to be sure--that arbitrary but traditional fundamental premise--Iago is quite equal to carrying it off; but on the plain basis of human nature, or of psychology, the feints and insinuations of "that demi-devil" or the devil himself (for at bottom the convention or superstition is nearly the same) would have been wasted, had Othello not been Iago's already and been delivered into his hands. He harkens unto Iago, Iago's counsel seems good in his eyes. Yet, if we know ourselves, the entrenchments of character and personality are not all so lightly leaped over, and the...
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