Friday, March 14
Othello
Have you read Shakespeare's Othello?
For the benefit of those who know what's happening, and for those who don't ... this is it.
I am Desdemona. I'm not dead, but that's simply because the law books of this era do not allow murders as easily. My Othello has mistrusted me, thanks to a certain Iago and his Emilia, who really, means no harm at all, but because she is after all, Iago's wife, she has to help to his fantasies. There is no Cassio in my life, but Othello wills it, thinks it so, and is convinced of so. In my 'Othello', Othello is not the protagonist, Desdemona is... and Desdemona despairs because she has been wronged, sinned against, accused of the untruth, and yet Othello insists that he does not suspect her of her... instead my Othello tells me other things.
And so.... I shall leave thee, with four suckling pigs for thee to feast thy senses on ...
For the benefit of those who know what's happening, and for those who don't ... this is it.
I am Desdemona. I'm not dead, but that's simply because the law books of this era do not allow murders as easily. My Othello has mistrusted me, thanks to a certain Iago and his Emilia, who really, means no harm at all, but because she is after all, Iago's wife, she has to help to his fantasies. There is no Cassio in my life, but Othello wills it, thinks it so, and is convinced of so. In my 'Othello', Othello is not the protagonist, Desdemona is... and Desdemona despairs because she has been wronged, sinned against, accused of the untruth, and yet Othello insists that he does not suspect her of her... instead my Othello tells me other things.
And so.... I shall leave thee, with four suckling pigs for thee to feast thy senses on ...
