In our Bonus Bites episodes, we explore a single theme, idea, or motif in a short lecture. These are not exemplar essays. Rather, you should think of them as ideas you could transplant into different essays that you write—especially if you are tackling the whole text question.

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The following lecture is an excerpt from Alexander G. Gonzalez’s essay ‘The Infection and Spread of Evil: Some Major Patterns of Imagery and Language in Othello (1985). I will read the lecture, quoted below, and talk you through how you might be able to use this in an extract or a whole text essay.

Bibliography:
Gonzalez, Alexander G. “The Infection and Spread of Evil: Some Major Patterns of Imagery and Language in ‘Othello.’” South Atlantic Review, vol. 50, no. 4, 1985, pp. 35–49. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3199381. Accessed 15 Apr. 2024.