3:4 Flashcards
‘Where should I lose the handkerchief’
‘I know not madam’
314
Passive, abides by her husband, contrast to 5:2
‘Give me your hand. This hand is moist my lady’
Page 314
Othello says
Links to Venetian women being promiscuous, Desdemona and Cassio, Iago’s plan, palm reading
‘I have it not about me’
Page 316
Desdemona says
Links to their break down in communication+trust
‘She dying gave it me’
‘when my fate would have me wived, to give it her. I did so’
Page 316
Othello says
Links to the importane of handkerchiefs
‘It is not lost; but what an if it were?’
Page 318
Desdemona says
Links to the breakdown in communication
‘The handkerchief!’
Page 319
Othello says
Repetition of wanting it
‘food’
‘they belch us’
Page 319
Emilia says
Women are functional to men
Links to women’s position in society, Othello when he says he’ll ‘tear’ Desdemona to pieces
Anaphora of they- dehumanise, objecitify
Cassio and Bianca’s relationship
‘sweet Bianca’
‘why whose is it?’
322+324
Secretive
Annoyance to an audience