4:3 Flashcards
‘If I do die before thee, prithee shroud me in one of these same sheets’
357
Desdemona says
‘If’-hope
Link to the poignance, defeated mindset, acceptance, adhering to the stereotype, doubt over the relationship
‘My mother had a maid called Barbary’
357
Desdemona says
The repeated idea of storytelling, disengaged, withdrawn
‘let nobody blame him, his scorn I approve’
359
Desdemona
Link to acceptance, fate, punishment, submissive, victim of the patriarchy
‘mine eyes do itch: doth that bode weeping?’
359
Desdemona
upset, inevitable
‘The world’s a huge thing: it is a great price for a small vice’
360
Emilia
Link to the handkerchief, ironic
‘And doth affection breed it?
‘Is’t frailty that thus errs?’
362
Emilia
Rhetorical questions
Hear the voice of the oppressed
‘And have we, not affections, Desires for sport, and fragility, as men have?
362
Emilia
Link to the Merchant of Venice