10/03/25 assesment Flashcards
‘_ ____ wear my _____ ____ __ sleeve for ____ __ ____ at’ Act _ Scene 1
’ I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at’ Act 1 Scene 1
- Admitting he’s tricking Othello (if he was open and wore his heart on his sleeve, crows would peck at it because he’s a bad person
- Metaphor foreshadows duplicity
- Finds people foolish who are what they seem
- He’s against vulnerability and for masculinity
‘___ ____ this _________ into his ear’ Act _ Scene _
‘I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear’ Act 2 Scene 3
- Pestilence is used to kill and destroy bad things
- Minds of Othello and Desdemona are like fertile soil and Iago’s pestilence will cause growth of plants of destruction that will destroy all roots of good as they aren’t deep
- Iago will whisper words of poison (his rumors about Desdemona) to Othello and kill him from the inside by planting seeds of jealousy
- Mirrors Lady Macbeth ‘poor spirits in thine ear’ as she manipulates Macbeth into taking action to get the crown
‘Do it ___ ____ ____ ______ her in her ___’
‘Do it not with poison strangle her in her bed
- Shows true villainy unlike the cartoon like villainy earlier
- Strangling is a crime of passion and more personal (Iago wants Othello to commit a more personal murder which will tear him apart more and cause more guilt when he finds out the truth - tragic realisation)
- The idea that Desdemona will be killed where she supposedly committed her sins of infidelity
- Iago is in control and the shifting of natural order seems to grant him more power
‘would she ____ you so much __ ___ ____ as of her _____ she oft ______ on me ___ ____ have _____’
‘would she give you so much of her lips as of her tongue she oft bestows on me you would have enough’
- Tongue reference depicts her as a nagging shrewd and reveals their marriage isn’t a happy on with persistent discord
- Humiliating her in public
- First time we see them together
- Literally saying that if Emilia kissed Cassio as much as she nags Iago then Cassio would have more than enough kissing
- Immediately juxtaposes the reunited scene here of Desdemona and Othello where they kiss
- Shakespeare examining idea that wives should be seen not heard which portrays her as the nagging relentless wife (implying women are undesirable if they speak too often)
- Iago is very controlling and dismissive of her
‘I am ____ own _____’
‘I am your own forever’
- Suggestion of homoerotic love as he is also embracing Othello tightly here
- Iago has a deep love almost for Othello
- Devoted to him not Emilia
‘_______ whore’
‘Villainous whore’
- Cruelly dismissive
- Views her as a lost cause
- Now Emilia is revealing too much
- Derogatory language
‘You’ve _____ _____ to say __’
‘You’ve little cause to say so’
- Literally means so you have nothing good to say about me (Iago’s just insulted her and women in general)
‘____ ___ all but _______ and we ___ but ____’
‘They are all but stomachs and we all but food’
- Extended metaphor
- Men will take and enjoy you then rid of you and belch you (graphic imagery)
- Proto views (feminism)
- Patriarchal society views that reduce men to their sexual appetite and women to existing to appease that (gluttony)
- Objectifying women
- She doesn’t view marriage as a positive thing like Desdemona
‘Let _____ and ___ and _____ let them ___ ___ shame against me ___ ___ _____’
Let heaven, and men and devils all cry shame against me yet I’ll speak
- Demonstrates power of female rage in violence
- Saying that everything can cry shame against her for exposing her husband and going against his authority yet it won’t stop her from speaking the truth
- Shakespeare shows a women willing to risk her reputation and marriage for her friends good name - Female solidarity transcends and overpowers all loyalties and duties demanded of women by their society (she knows the evil Iago is capable of too)
‘_____ is most _____’
‘Iago is most honest
- Short simple sentence punctuates Othello’s myopia
- Epithet honest used throughout
’[_____] Now he ____ __ _____ and ______ it out’
‘Now he denies it faintly and laughs it out
- Othello’s error is believing this dialogue as he thinks Iago is providing him more ocular proof for Desdemona’s unfaithfulness
- Dramatic technique of aside
- He truly believes they are talking about Desdemona not Bianca
‘She’s like a ____ ____ to _____ ____’
‘She’s like a liar gone to burning hell’
- Hellish imagery and language
- He then also proudly declares h killed her which shows his tumultuous state of mind
- He believes Desdemona’s life was a greater evil than killing her
- Juxtaposes her angelic imagery earlier and him calling her ‘white as snow’
‘ _ ____ the ______ Desdemona’ Act 1 Scene _
‘I love the gentle Desdemona’ Act 1 Scene 2
-Juxtaposes earlier hellish and bestial descriptions of Othello - he’s truly gentle (audience impact)
- This makes him vulnerable = is his love his tragic flaw
- Language of love
‘________ wretch! Perdition _____ __ ____ but I do ____ ____ and when I ____ ____ not _____ is come again’ Act _ Scene 3
‘Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul but i do love thee and when I love thee not chaos is come again’ Act 3 Scene 3
- ‘Excellent wretch’ = oxymoron (contradictory words with opposite meanings) captures chaos
- He shows the nature of his affection that he either loves her intensely and feels protective or else he feels scorned and succumbs to an emotional chaos
- He suggests losing his love would bring chaos which foreshadows the turmoil from Iago’s manipulation
- Saying the world will have to end before he stops loving her
‘Ay let her ___ ___ ____ and be _____ _____ for she shall ___ ____’
‘Ay let her rot and perish and be damned tonight for she shall not live’
- Declarative of she shall not live
- rot and perish shows tautology (two things that mean the same)
- Othello’s rhetoric seals fate of Desdemona’s death and downfall
- Pure hatred
- Then starts speaking in prose which shows emotional shift
- Extent of myopia
- Shows manipulation and malignity of Iago
‘That I did ____ ___ ____ to live ___ ___… my ____ subdued to the ____ ____ of my Lord’
That I did love the Moor to live with him….My heart’s subdued even to the very quality of my Lord’
- Saying literally that her quickness and boldness to take control of her future clearly showed she married him to live with him and her heart is completely under his control
- Speaking movingly about their affection
- Metaphor conveys union + typical role of women in renaissance society
‘his ______ may _____ my life but ____ ____ my love’
‘His unkindness may defeat my life but never taint my love’
- Saying that even if he hates her she will never stop loving and being devoted to him (submissive and typical role) - Othello has just called her a whore and treated her like she’s in a brothel (shows extent of devotion
- Juxtaposes Emilia and Iago
‘Nobody, I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind Lord.
‘Nobody, I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind Lord.
- Takes responsibility for her own death
- Self sacrificing angel -Purely devoted
- Still calls him kind and my lord
- She would rather blame herself than say it was Othello
- Last words are to clear her husband of guilt
