Theupholstery and the rugs muffle her but we can hear her clearly despite that.The tension between her lack of control and her attempt to suppress it ishorrible. It's like a fart in church.
Serena Joy's muffling cries symbolise the real comparative and biologically sinful nature of the act, that everyone else is awkwardly yet restraining to ignore. The "fart in church" really indicates a biological necessity, a response to a strict and man-made construct such as the church.
07:30 Wow, interesting point: The people back then struggled with the question of how to depict prophetic and divine figures. How to do that? Certain anxieties underlying this.
08:30 A week before the incident, Lopez showed art in India and of the Buddha and so on. A whole course on how the divine is presented, and struggled with, in different regions and cultures, other than the West (an Eurocentric view).
Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio,My advocation is not now in tune.
The fact that Desdemona is sometimes represented as divinity, as a guardian angel, shows that the fact that Othello is rejecting her advocation shows he is falling into his devil, into his inner Iago -- he is losing touch with God, with righteousness (while ironically thinking he is doing the right thing by being civil)
But I will have my lord and you againAs friendly as you were
She is like a goddess, bringing things from destruction back into order, and having people worship her like Cassio as her "true servant"
s.Hail to thee, lady, and the grace of heaven
Always referred to side by side with the angels or grace of heaven
our great captain’s captain
Guardian angel of Othello himself
As having sense of beauty, do omitTheir mortal natures, letting go safely byThe divine Desdemona
Is Desdemona somehow the only figure that can ease the storm, falter the wrath that Iago brings, Othello's source of protection and of hope? Juxtaposition between heavenly and mortal world, the opposite of evil himself, Iago
It addresses you in terms of your divinity and says, wake up! And it addresses you in the language of your humanity so that you might comprehend it.
Our Divinity and our humanity... Jalan Cinta Sanctuary..