All 14 Uses of
Othello
in
Brave New World
- From its hiding-place he took out his mouse-nibbled volume, turned with religious care its stained and crumbled pages, and began to read Othello.
p. 171.6 *Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy
- Othello, he remembered, was like the hero of Three Weeks in a Helicopter–a black man.
p. 171.6Othello = main character of Shakespeare's tragedy by the same name
- Only in Othello's word could he find an adequate vehicle for his contempt and hatred.
p. 219.6Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy
- Why don't you let them see Othello instead?
p. 219.7
- "Well then," he said, after a pause, "something new that's like Othello, and that they could understand."
p. 219.9
- Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be.
p. 220.1
- And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.
p. 220.1
- Because our world is not the same as Othello's world.
p. 220.3
- And now expecting them to understand Othello!
p. 220.7
- "All the same," he insisted obstinately, "Othello's good,"
p. 220.8
- Othello's better than those feelies.
p. 220.8
- For the same reason as we don't give them Othello: they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago.
p. 231.4
- Don't you remember what Othello said?
p. 238.3Othello = main character of Shakespeare's tragedy by the same name
- All the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona and being murdered by Othello, without any of the inconveniences.
p. 240.0
Definitions:
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(1)
(Othello) Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy (c. 1604)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)