3,3 Quotes Flashcards
Des down fall / too kind
“I’ll intermingle everythinf he does with cassios suit”
Turning point / start of manipulation
Iago
Ha! I like not that
Nothing my lord… I cannot think it, that he would steal away so guilty like seeing you coming
Othello gives cassio Job back
I will deny thee nothing
Othello foreground chaos and his split with des
“I do love thee and when I love thee not chaos is come again”
Iago asking leading questions
Did Michale cassio… know of your love?
Othello and iago have doubt about Casio
“I think that he be honest”
Qualified phrase
Othello overthinks / sexual paranoia / jealous
“Some monster in thy thoughts”
Dramatic irony / leading phrases
Iago
You know I love you
Othello thinks iago is honest
“Full of love and honesty”
“Exceeding honesty”
Othello can’t control emotion / passion
“That passion cannot rule”
Iago warns Othello of jealousy
Monster imagery
Key motif
“O beware my lord of jealousy it is the green eyes monster”
Othello change in emotion
Sufferinf
Over thinking
O misery
Iago making more accusations
“Look to your wife: observe her well with cassio”
Iago exploits Othello for this exact reason
“Free and noble nature”
Iago using Othello as outsider/ makes him appear vulnerable and uneducated on what Venetian women are like/ Othello aware of outsider status falls for iagos deceit
“I know our country .. in Venice … they dare not show their husbands”
Iago echoes brabantios words which make des look decitfull
“She did deceive her father marring you
“He thought ‘‘twas witchcraft”
Othello would also be aware that it was deemed unnatural for black man to marry a white women - aware that des could do that
Iago interrupts Othello
He exacerbates othellos doubt to make sure he is concerned
Significance of iago returning after leaving
He tells Othello “scam this thing no further” implying he shouldn’t think/ talk about it anymore as desdemona May find out and prove she’s innocent and it would put a hole in iagos plan. Othello needs to watch cassio & des and remain quiet - like he does
Othello aware of outsider status / he is proud / sos insecure
“Haply for I am black and have not those soft parts of conversation that chambers have
Othello accepts des has been unfaithful and she is lost
“She’s gone; I am abused… o curse of marriage”
Othello is sexually humiliated / doesn’t want to share des
“I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapour of a dungeon, than keeps a corner in the thing I love for others use”
Othello then says he won’t believe it if des is false
“If she be false… illl not believe it”
“I think my wife be honest” still a bit of doubt
Des enter
Othello complains of sore head
Cuckhold
“Pain upon my forehead”
Napkin falls
[he pushes the handkerchief away and it falls]
“Let it alone”
Emilia steals handkerchief
Iago asked her for it “100 times”
“I nothing but to please his fantasy”
Iago knows Othello already under his poison
“The moor already changes with my poison”
Othello sexual jealous/ he hates knowing
“I had been happy if the general camp, pioneers and all had tasted her sweet body so I had nothing known”
Othello needs ocular proof
“Prove my love a whore… give me ocular proof”
“Give me a living reason she’s disloyal “
Othellos language middle
He’s language is more aggressive / violent / not calm
Iago sexual imagery which Othello later mirrors
“Prime as goats, as hot as monkeys”
Iagos dream he has to make up as Othello is asking for prove
“I heard him say ‘sweet desdemona’
Cassios alleged dream , to wind Othello up
Othello suggest murder of des
“I’ll tear her all to pieces”
“Swift means of death for the fair devil”
Iago says don’t confront her and questions where her handkerchief is
“Cassio wipe his beard”
Othellos language totally degraded
“Black vengeance.. to tyrannous hate”
“My bloody thoughts
