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Extended EssayOthello

Lesson 9

LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s development of

Othello?

Form: play, drama, genre, tragedy, hubris, hamartia, Contexts: historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender,

Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiencesStructure, language, juxtaposition, split lines, pentameter,

relationships, love, fraternity

Extended Essay Text 1: Othello

Starter:Some critics

describe Othello as a play of journeys, for

example

How many journeys relate to Othello the

man?Ext: Can you use evidence from throughout the

play to support your ideas?

Setting

Venice Cyprus Emilia

Obedience to Iago

Anger and hostility towards Iago

Othello

Trust Jealousy

LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s development of Othello?

Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore and evaluate through detailed and sophisticated critical analysis how writers use these aspects to create meaning.

Good Progress: you will show awareness of structure, form, language, themes and contexts, and comment on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted

Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted.

B4

B3

B2

Extended Essay Text 1: Othello

The Big Picture

Extended Essay Text 1: Othello LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s development of

Othello?

LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s development of Othello?

Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore through detailed and sophisticated critical analysis how writers use these aspects to create characters and meaning.

Good Progress: you will show awareness of structure, form, language, themes and contexts, and comment on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted

Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted.

B4

B3

B2

Extended Essay Text 1: Othello

Form: play, drama, genre, tragedy, hubris, hamartia, Contexts: historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender,

Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiencesStructure, language, juxtaposition, split lines, pentameter,

relationships, love, fraternity

Extended Essay Text 1: Othello

LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s development of Othello?

Read through Othello’s soliloquy from Act III (lines 262-283, in sections on your handout).

This is the first chance for the audience to see into his mind and find out what he thinks about Iago’s ‘honest’ insinuations.

In pairs, take responsibility for one of the

sections:• What do you find interesting in what

he says, how he might say it, and how it relates to what has gone before (in

terms of content, attitude and language/imagery)?

Form: play, drama, genre, tragedy, hubris, hamartia, Contexts: historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender,

Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiencesStructure, language, juxtaposition, split lines, pentameter,

relationships, love, fraternity

Extended Essay Text 1: Othello

LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s development of Othello?

Closer analysis: Othello’s language and state of mind.

Read through the extract your group has been given (either from Act 1 Scene 3, or Act 5 Scene 2).

Annotate your extract to show:• What Shakespeare's language reveals about Othello’s

character• How the language has changed in the course of the

play.

Read over the annotated

example from Act 4 Scene 1 to

help

Form: play, drama, genre, tragedy, hubris, hamartia, Contexts: historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender,

Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiencesStructure, language, juxtaposition, split lines, pentameter,

relationships, love, fraternity

Extended Essay Text 1: Othello

LQ: Can I explore Shakespeare’s development of Othello?

Feedback

Present your findings to another group.

Annotate the other speech as the other

grouppresents to you.

How much progress have you made?

Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore through detailed and sophisticated critical analysis how writers use these aspects to create characters and meaning.

Good Progress: you will show awareness of structure, form, language, themes and contexts, and comment on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted

Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted.

Plenary:Do you agree or disagree with these readings?

Use evidence to support your answers.

Extended Essay Text 1: Othello

Ext: Can you use evidence from throughout the play to

support your ideas?

Othello’s nature is all of one piece. His trust, where he trusts is

absolute. Hesitation is almost impossible to him. He is extremely self reliant, and decides and acts

instantaneously. If stirred to indignation…he answers with one lightning stroke. Love, if he loves, must be to him the heaven where either he must live or bear no life. If such a passion as jealousy seizes

him, it will swell into an incontrollable flood.

A.C. Bradley

Othello’s tragedy is that he lives according to a set of stories through which he interprets the world – an ideology – but it is a world that has

been superseded. He cannot see that this is so, and the contradictions

within his ideology destroy him. He is living the life of a chivalric warrior in a world run by money and self-interest.

Sean McEvoy

He really is, beyond any question, the nobly massive man of action, the

captain of men, he sees himself as being…in short, a habit of self-

approving, self-dramatisation is an essential element in Othello’s make-

up. F.R. Leavis