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Othello University of California, Santa Barbara奥赛罗加利福尼亚大学圣塔巴巴拉

Othello Third lecture Othello’s “psychomachia” Iago’s temptation of Othello: one long scene, III, 3: Othello’s “psychomachia,” the contest for his soul. Without fully appreciating what he’s saying, Othello exclaims of Desdemona at l. 90ff, “Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul/ But I do love thee! And when I love thee not/ Chaos is come again.” In essence, “Damned if I don’t love you!” Iago aims at falsifying Othello’s entire experience of love. Or perhaps replacing it? Notice how often the word “love” occurs in Iago’s discourse of temptation. “My lord, you know I love you” (l. 117) To which Othello says, “I think thou dost.” And when Othello says he’ll choose between love and jealousy, Iago says, “I’m glad of this, for now I shall have reason/ To show the love and duty I bear you” (l. 194). And after reminding him of Desdemona’s deception of her father, Iago says, “I humbly do beseech you of your pardon/ For too much loving you. To which Othello says, “I am bound to thee forever.” A contest of two “loves”? Othello’s trial Can we expect Othello to see through Iago? If so, how would he? Iago aims at a totalizing of Othello’s understanding and experience. Can he evade this? See his soliloquy at l. 258ff. He comes to think of infidelity in marriage and being cuckholded as inevitable. BUT there’s one decisive moment for Othello, which might enable him to evade Iago’s theater of suspicion. III, 3, 277: “Look where she comes./ If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself./ I’ll not believe’t!” For this one moment, Othello seems poised on the fulcrum of good and evil, between Desdemona’s love and Iago’s “love.” And the next action seems decisive – and occurs without Iago. The handkerchief At III, 3, 284, Othello performs an act of Iago-like fantasy: he pretends a “pain” on his forehead, that is, that he has grown a cuckhold’s horns. Which Desdemona, innocent of his fantasy, tries to touch, to bind with her handkerchief – A figure of health-giving lo