...a girl posts several "tweethis" statements in the hopes that she will finally have a direction for her paper.
- Jung's theory of the unconscious and its contentious attitudes reflects well the way in which Shakespeare's love of disguises in his characters and even more specifically in Iago's character who jumps from character to character to fit his motivations.
- Iago's change in character and ability to appease everyone he talks to is directly relateable to others of Shakespeare's characters who easily don disguises to fool their peers.
-Shakespeare's repetitive use of disguises across his plays and also Iago's character who dons figurative disguises, creates a philosophical puzzle in which the depth of character can be defined not by the true identity but by the disguises themselves which arguably serve to define the character more appropriately than his name and true face alone.
-interestingly on this point-the face changes with every actor, so the question of what defines a character could lie either within or without the text.
A couple thoughts:
ReplyDeleteI like the specificity of the first claim. You have another anchor that you can look at in writing your paper, and that really helps in getting your ideas together.
I'm most interested by the third claim, though it would need to be cleaned up a little bit. Distilled to its purest form, you're saying, "Iago's disguise becomes his identity," and I love that take on the play.
My personal favorite is the second one because you go right to the heart of the argument. But I like the first one because it is more likely to get critical attention because you refer to a critical theory. I feel like using a critical theory for interpretation is likely to be more informative and arguable.
ReplyDeleteOh I like the first one. Captivating.
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