A5S2 Key quotes Flashcards
Key quotes from Othello’s speech while Desdemona is sleeping (4)
- ‘not scar that whiter skin of hers than snow’
- ‘she must die else she’ll betray more men’
- ‘I cannot give it vital growth again’
- ‘I must weep but they are cruel tears’
How does Othello play God (2)
- ‘I would not kill thy unprepared spirit’
- ‘I that am cruel, am yet merciful’
Desdemona quote about love
‘that death’s unnatural that kills for loving’
Desdemona victim quotes (3)
- ‘I never did offend you in my life’
- ‘kill me tomorrow: let me live tonight’
- ‘a guiltless death I die’
Othello’s raving lunacies once he killed Desdemona (3)
- ‘shall she come in?’
- ‘what’s best to do?’
- ‘my wife? my wife? my wife? I have no wife’
‘Then murder’s out of tune…
…and sweet revenge grows harsh’
Emilia reaction to Othello killing Desdemona
‘the more angel she, and you the blacker devil’
How does Othello respond to Emilia’s repeated questioning
‘my friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago’
What does Emilia repeatedly question
‘my husband?’
How does Iago summarise his role in the events
‘I told him what I thought, and no more than what he found himself was apt and true’
How does Emilia insinuate Othello as a monster
‘lay thee down and roar’
‘you told a lie…
…an odious, damned lie’
How does Othello react to the true events being revealed to him
‘I am not valiant neither’
What does Emilia say about Desdemona as she dies
‘she loved thee cruel Moor’
Othello hellish references in his monologue (2)
- ‘whip me ye devils’
- ‘roast me in sulphur’