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1
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Des down fall / too kind

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“I’ll intermingle everythinf he does with cassios suit”

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2
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Turning point / start of manipulation

Iago

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Ha! I like not that

Nothing my lord… I cannot think it, that he would steal away so guilty like seeing you coming

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3
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Othello gives cassio Job back

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I will deny thee nothing

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Othello foreground chaos and his split with des

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“I do love thee and when I love thee not chaos is come again”

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5
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Iago asking leading questions

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Did Michale cassio… know of your love?

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6
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Othello and iago have doubt about Casio

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“I think that he be honest”

Qualified phrase

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7
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Othello overthinks / sexual paranoia / jealous

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“Some monster in thy thoughts”

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8
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Dramatic irony / leading phrases

Iago

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You know I love you

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Othello thinks iago is honest

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“Full of love and honesty”

“Exceeding honesty”

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10
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Othello can’t control emotion / passion

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“That passion cannot rule”

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Iago warns Othello of jealousy
Monster imagery
Key motif

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“O beware my lord of jealousy it is the green eyes monster”

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12
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Othello change in emotion
Sufferinf
Over thinking

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O misery

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13
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Iago making more accusations

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“Look to your wife: observe her well with cassio”

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14
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Iago exploits Othello for this exact reason

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“Free and noble nature”

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15
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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

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“I know our country .. in Venice … they dare not show their husbands”

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16
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Iago echoes brabantios words which make des look decitfull

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“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

17
Q

Iago interrupts Othello

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He exacerbates othellos doubt to make sure he is concerned

18
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Significance of iago returning after leaving

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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

19
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Othello aware of outsider status / he is proud / sos insecure

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“Haply for I am black and have not those soft parts of conversation that chambers have

20
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Othello accepts des has been unfaithful and she is lost

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“She’s gone; I am abused… o curse of marriage”

21
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Othello is sexually humiliated / doesn’t want to share des

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“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”

22
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Othello then says he won’t believe it if des is false

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“If she be false… illl not believe it”

“I think my wife be honest” still a bit of doubt

23
Q

Des enter

Othello complains of sore head

Cuckhold

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“Pain upon my forehead”

24
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Napkin falls

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[he pushes the handkerchief away and it falls]

“Let it alone”

25
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Emilia steals handkerchief

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Iago asked her for it “100 times”

“I nothing but to please his fantasy”

26
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Iago knows Othello already under his poison

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“The moor already changes with my poison”

27
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Othello sexual jealous/ he hates knowing

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“I had been happy if the general camp, pioneers and all had tasted her sweet body so I had nothing known”

28
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Othello needs ocular proof

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“Prove my love a whore… give me ocular proof”

“Give me a living reason she’s disloyal “

29
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Othellos language middle

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He’s language is more aggressive / violent / not calm

30
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Iago sexual imagery which Othello later mirrors

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“Prime as goats, as hot as monkeys”

31
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Iagos dream he has to make up as Othello is asking for prove

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“I heard him say ‘sweet desdemona’

Cassios alleged dream , to wind Othello up

32
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Othello suggest murder of des

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“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”

33
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Othellos language totally degraded

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“Black vengeance.. to tyrannous hate”

“My bloody thoughts

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