| William Shakespeare - 1968 - 244 ページ
...utmost hopes, 50 I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience. But alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too, well, very well : But there where I have garnered up... | |
| Ruth Nevo - 2005 - 264 ページ
...not. O but her eye . . .' But so far only for the audiences' delectation. He has not yet been made a fixed figure for the time of scorn to point his slow and moving finger at. This overthrow occurs during the eavesdropping scene and he brings it upon himself. Unable to resist... | |
| Jane Adamson - 1980 - 316 ページ
...acknowledging what he really feels - only then to slide away towards self-pity again : But alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at! Yet could I bear that too, well, very well. (11- 52-5) It is a sense of himself... | |
| Frangois Laroque - 1993 - 444 ページ
...singleness and a reduction of the individual to the common lot of mankind), Othello refuses to be made 'A fixed figure, for the time of scorn / To point his slow unmoving finger at . . . ' (iv, ii, 56—7). The difference between the noble Moor and the rest is... | |
| Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 340 ページ
...plain from the painful intensity, the personal assimilation he expressed in ... But alas! to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow and moving finger at — The groan which escaped from the broad chest was natural ... In place of interpreting Othello,... | |
| Herbert R. Coursen - 1993 - 212 ページ
...Othello because he is black. He gets Othello to say so. But lago can only make an object of Othello — "A fixed figure for the time of scorn / To point his slow and moving finger at!" (IV.2. 64-65) — if Othello makes an object of Desdemona. At the end, of course, Othello kills himself.... | |
| Meredith Anne Skura - 1993 - 348 ページ
...Renaissance Drama," English Literary History 54 (1987): 561-83, on the cuckold's fate. He is exposed as a "fixed figure, for the time of scorn / To point his slow unmoving finger at" (Oth. 4.2.54-55), as Othello feared; he hears the whole world whispering, "Sicilia... | |
| Frances E. Dolan - 1994 - 274 ページ
...view, "the impediment most profitably removed" (2.1.279-80), trapped into being what he most fears, "a fixed figure for the time of scorn / To point his slow and moving finger at" (4.2.56-57). lago and Emilia offer a farcical perspective on adultery, trivializing what Othello experiences... | |
| Tom Cohen - 1994 - 292 ページ
...finger itself — the fetish possibility of pointing or mute indication ("make me / The fixed figure of the time of scorn / To point his slow and moving finger at" [4.2.52—4]). from life to death (and back). The hinted at necrophilia ("Be thus when thou art dead,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 ページ
...utmost hopes, I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience. But, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at! Yet could I bear that too; well, very well. But there where I have garnered up... | |
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