3:3 Flashcards
‘his bed shall seem a school’
284
Desdemona says
Misery
‘I am bound to every act of duty, but I am not bound to that all slaves are free to utter my thoughts?’
290
Iago
Stops dialogue
Greater doubt, concealment
‘the green-eyed monster’
292
Iago
Symbolic of jealousy
‘I’ll see before I doubt it; when I doubt…away at once with love or jealousy!’
294
Othello
Wanting ocular proof- changes
Wanting the impossible
‘And yet how nature erring from itself’
296
Othello says
Great Chain of Being, fate, believing what he is told
‘My wayward husband hath a hundred times wooed me to steal it’
‘I nothing but to please his fantasy’
300
Emilia
E is a victim of I’s manipulation
Lacks questioning
Knows its sentimental value
Justification E is subserviant to Iago
Sexual imagery
‘I don’t know what he’ll do with it’
‘she let it drop by negligance’
301
Emilia says
Questionable
Justify her actions
‘He snatches it’
‘Give’t me again, poor lady she’; run made when she shall lack it’
301
Stage direction- lack of respect, dismissive of his wife
Tries to right her wrong
‘prove my love a whore’
304
Othello
Term of endearment is then juxtaposed
Exclamatory+misogynistic
Associated to a woman acting inappropriately
‘give me the ocular proof
304
Othello
Wants evidence, asking for the impossible as it’s not true
‘In his sleep, I heard him say “Sweet Desdemona Let us be wary, let us hide our loves’
‘he gripe and wring my hand’
‘O, sweet creature! and then kiss me hard’
‘laid his leg over my thigh, and sighed, and kissed’
308
Iago says
Accusing Cassio- unable to disprove as asleep
Visual imagery
Convinced his evidence will be enough to prove his point
‘I’ll tear her all to pieces!’
309
Othello says
Destroyed easily, vulnerable, black people are seen as angry and erratic
‘Tomorrow dinner, then?’
‘or Tuesday morn?’
286
Motif of time
‘I am abused’
‘O curse marriage’
298
Othello
inevitable of the time because of race
link to 1:3
‘your napkin is too little’
299
Othello
importance of the handkerchief
