... Flashcards
Roderigo quotes
Self-aware
“I do follow here in the chase, not like a Hound that hunts, but one that fills up the cry”
“my purse / As if the strings were thine”
Insecurities about social rank (Iago uses this) mirrors Othello
“a knave of common hire, a gondolier” (reveals his hyper consciousness around class trying to jusitify it to Brabantio)
“If thou be’st valiant—as they say base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than
is native to them”- Iago (contrast between base and nobility)
Humerous
“It is silliness to live when to live is torment”
“I will incontinently drown myself.”
“I confess it is my shame
to be so fond, but it is not in my virtue to amend it”
Iago response “Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners”
Iago: “Come, be a man! Drown thyself? Drown
cats and blind puppies.”
Cassio quotes
“’Tis my breeding/ That gives me this bold show of courtesy” referring to how he kissed Emilia (respectfully)
“O, behold,
The riches of the ship is come on shore!
about Desdemona (flowery language)
“I marry her? What, a customer?”
“This is the monkey’s own giving out. She is persuaded I will marry her”
“The Lieutenant is to be saved before the Ancient.”
Iago villainous quotes
“He hath a daily beauty in his life / That makes me ugly.”
“So will turn her virtue into pitch / And out of her own goodness make the net / That shall enmesh them all”
“Iago’s willingness to act on “suspicion.. as if for surety” suggests there is an inherent evil nature to his character, and that the motives he gives are purely incidental
“It is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets he’s done my office”
“I am not what I am”
Othello and Desdemona relationship quotes
“My love doth so approve him/ That even his stubbornness, his checks, his frowns—Prithee, unpin me—have grace and favor in them”
“No by this heavenly light” which emilia responds to with “Nor I neither by this heavenly light, I might do’t as well in the dark”
“My life upon her faith!” to “Down, strumpet!” Othello shift
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed/ I loved her that she did pity them”
“Put out the light, and then put out the light”
“And but my noble Moor
Is true of mind and made of no such baseness
As jealous creatures are”
“loving not wisely but too well”
“I kissed thee ere I killed thee”
Desdemona “victim/saintly” quotes
“the divine Desdemona”- Cassio
“her name that was as fresh/ As Dian’s visage”- Othello allusion to Diana the Roman virgin goddess of the moon
“framed as fruitful/ As the free elements”- Iago pun
Desdemona isn’t divine she is human
Immaturity
“I am a child to chiding” (after Othello strikes her)
repeated bringing up of Cassio not recognising Othello may need time
“But shall ’t be shortly?”
“I wonder in my soul/What you would ask me, that I should deny” (guilt tripping
Naive
“That there be women do abuse their husbands
In such gross kind?”
“Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?”
Othello “shift” quotes
Shift from eloquent language iambic pentameter to
“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them”
“Pish! Noses, ears, and
lips—is ’t possible? Confess—handkerchief—O,devil! falls into trance”
Jealousy
“O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock /The meat it feeds on”
“How shall I murder him, Iago?”
“I follow him to serve my turn upon him”
“He hath a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly”
The other
“your son in law is far more fair than black”
“an old black ram is tupping your white ewe”
“Haply, for I am black / And have not those soft parts of conversation / That chamberers have”
“I think my wife be honest, and I think she is not;”
“O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites!”
Manhood and reputation
“Reputation, reputation, reputation!… I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”
“good name in man and woman…is the immediate jewel of their souls”
“Farewell the plumèd troops and the big wars / That makes ambition virtue!”
“A horned man’s a monster and a beast”
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Insecurities quotes
“Haply, for I am black / And have not those soft parts of conversation / That chamberers have” - Othello
“He hath a daily beauty in his life / That makes me ugly.”- Iago referring to Cassio
“I think my wife be honest, and I think she is not;”- Othello
“Cassio’s a proper man. Let me see now:/ To get his place and to plume up my will/ In double knavery.”- Iago
Racism quotes
“your son in law is far more fair than black”
“an old black ram is tupping your white ewe”
“I do suspect the lusty Moor / Hath leaped into my seat.”
“O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!”
Handkerchief
Symbol of fidelity
“By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in ’s hand!”
“I will in Cassio’s lodging lose this napkin
And let him find it…The Moor already changes with my poison”
“my father’s eye
Should hold her loathèd and his spirits should hunt
After new fancies”
Othello’s source text
Italian source text Cinthio’s “Hecatommithi”
(Roderigo was not a character in source text)
Bianca
“I am no strumpet; but of life as honest/ As you that thus abuse me.”
“O my dear Cassio! my sweet Cassio! O Cassio,
Cassio, Cassio!”
“but that you do not love me. I pray you, bring me on the way a little”
“let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you mean by that same handkerchief”
Appearance vs reality
“honest Iago”
“the Moor is of a free and open nature/ That thinks men honest that but seem to be so; and will as tenderly be led by th’ nose/ As asses are”
“I am not what I am”
“And out of her own goodness / make the net that shall enmesh them all”
