So for today's journal entry, I'll be using Othello again as my main literary source. However, I'm essentially using it for both my sources today. The first is from a review of Othello called Unproper Beds: Race, Adultery, and the Hideousness of Othello, by Michael Neill, appearing on page 385 of Shakespeare Quarterly.
Even more striking is the fact that these images were often designed to draw readers into texts whose bowdlerizing maneuvers aimed, as far as possible, to conceal everything that their frontispieces offer to reveal.
The second quote of course comes from Othello since that is where I keep getting my good points from. Coming today from page 90 in our books, located in Act 4, Scene 2.
Emilia: Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhored her,
Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her,
That true hearts cannot bear it.
This is integral with the first quote because as it indicated with the first passage, they conceal what they intended to reveal earlier. In the passage from Othello, Emilia is telling Iago about the names and words Othello said to Desdemona, but she doesn't explain the whole story to him, so Iago naturally would take Desdemona's side. Depending on the way a person tells a story will determine how it will affect them in the end. How this plays out with future events will only be determined by reading on. Ergo, hiding stuff when telling a story that was revealed earlier does affect the outcome in the end.
Short one today, but I don't know what else to write, so that's it for now. Until next time. ^^
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