Still sick, but that is no longer the purpose of this entry.

[elsajeni]

First of all: have best boyfriend ever. I win. Am still a bit confused about how in the hell I got this lucky, but am reluctant to mention it for fear of attracting the attention of the law of averages.

Second of all: I get to go home for dinner tonight, yay, because I tried to call my mom to whine, but she wasn't home, so instead I got to whine at my dad, who is much more of a pushover. Yay, real food.

Last of all: fucking Othello. It's bad enough that I had a choice between writing on Othello and trying to write on Canterbury Tales except that I'd be restricted to using the original Middle English, which is incoherent enough when I can think, and therefore was forced to choose the one that I like less (because Canterbury Tales is hilarious and smutty and Othello is just sort of... vaguely smutty, but not in a fun way). But why do I have to write about the absolute least interesting aspect of Othello, that being the relationship between Othello and Iago? I mean, a paper about Iago's rampant paranoia or the romantic ("romantic") relationships in the play or something interesting, please, would be all right. This is boring. Whiiiiine.

Comments

[canemex.livejournal.com]

I bet you could work in something about how Othello and Iago have a romantic relationship based on paranoia.

I'd give it an A!

[quincunx.livejournal.com]

Who says there isn't a romantic relationship between Iago and Othello? Maybe Iago encouraging Othello to kill Desdemona is indicative of deeper feelings on his part. You could definitely make a case for this, and if you get a bad grade, claim the teacher is homophobic.

[elsajeni.livejournal.com]

Except she totally wants to hear that they're gay lovers. She keeps saying in class that that's implied. Except it totally isn't. Iago's all like, "You slept with Mrs Iago you hor!!!11! Desdemona cheated on you!!!" and Othello's all like, "The fuck are you talking about?" and Iago's all like, "I saw her handkerchief!!!11!!!1!"

... You know, it would actually make a lot of sense for Iago to run around the internet starting flamewars.

[quincunx.livejournal.com]

It can be a one-sided kind of relationship. Nothing quite like jealousy to bring out paranoia, you know?

... You know, it would actually make a lot of sense for Iago to run around the internet starting flamewars.

And you make too much sense. Ever think about what some of the other people of Shakespeare would do on the inter-web? I assume that Demetrius, Lysander, Helena, and Hermia would all be in one of those horrible dating communities. Shylock would be an avid participater in the Kill Everyone project. Puck would write a humourous gossip blog and/or make funny/stupid memes.

[elsajeni.livejournal.com]

Romeo and Juliet would be the creepy way-too-serious-about-their-twoo-luv 14-year-old couple that met in a chatroom. King Lear would be all like, "So... this thing... you say it's called a 'mouse'?" Hamlet would angst in his livejournal all the time until everyone defriended him, and then he'd threaten to kill himself.