비너스의 무어인 오델로(Othello, the Moor of Venus): 격정의 탄생과 바다
Othello, the Moor of/ in Venus: Shakespeare’s Sea and the Birth of a Passion
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Othello, the mercenary soldier, confronts the crisis of his identity when he enters the watery city of Venice and meets there the Venusian woman of Desdemona. The name of Desdemona still keeps her ancient kinship with Circe and Siren. The fluidity and liquidity of the sea in Shakespeare represents sea sufferings and sea changes undergone by his heroes and heroines. If Shakespeare portrayed in his narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, the tragic experience of the adolescent Adonis symbolically suffocated and stifled by the buxom and luxurious middle-aged Venus, in the tragedy of Othello, the black Moor is drowned in the waters of Venus-Desdemona. Othello’s turbulent passions of jealousy and fear of a white woman are realized in Cyprus, the birthplace of Venus genetrix in the far east of the Mediterranean. The Pontic torrents flood him down into the rocks of a frantic self-loss blurred by his energetic self-dramatization. Desdemona as a Venus of the open sea engulfs Othello’s masculinity in her obscure and murky liquidity and sexuality of which Othello is constantly afraid that he cannot sound the depth. This doubtful un-knowledge, though incensed by Iago, leads Othello to his tragic self-murder.
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Othello, the mercenary soldier, confronts the crisis of his identity when he enters the watery city of Venice and meets there the Venusian woman of Desdemona. The name of Desdemona still keeps her ancient kinship with Circe and Siren. The fluidity and liquidity of the sea in Shakespeare represents sea sufferings and sea changes undergone by his heroes and heroines. If Shakespeare portrayed in his narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, the tragic experience of the adolescent Adonis symbolically suffocated and stifled by the buxom and luxurious middle-aged Venus, in the tragedy of Othello, the black Moor is drowned in the waters of Venus-Desdemona. Othello’s turbulent passions of jealousy and fear of a white woman are realized in Cyprus, the birthplace of Venus genetrix in the far east of the Mediterranean. The Pontic torrents flood him down into the rocks of a frantic self-loss blurred by his energetic self-dramatization. Desdemona as a Venus of the open sea engulfs Othello’s masculinity in her obscure and murky liquidity and sexuality of which Othello is constantly afraid that he cannot sound the depth. This doubtful un-knowledge, though incensed by Iago, leads Othello to his tragic self-murder.
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