A5S2 Key quotes Flashcards

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Key quotes from Othello’s speech while Desdemona is sleeping (4)

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  • ‘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’
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2
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How does Othello play God (2)

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  • ‘I would not kill thy unprepared spirit’
  • ‘I that am cruel, am yet merciful’
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3
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Desdemona quote about love

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‘that death’s unnatural that kills for loving’

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4
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Desdemona victim quotes (3)

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  • ‘I never did offend you in my life’
  • ‘kill me tomorrow: let me live tonight’
  • ‘a guiltless death I die’
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5
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Othello’s raving lunacies once he killed Desdemona (3)

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  • ‘shall she come in?’
  • ‘what’s best to do?’
  • ‘my wife? my wife? my wife? I have no wife’
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‘Then murder’s out of tune…

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…and sweet revenge grows harsh’

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Emilia reaction to Othello killing Desdemona

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‘the more angel she, and you the blacker devil’

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How does Othello respond to Emilia’s repeated questioning

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‘my friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago’

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9
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What does Emilia repeatedly question

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‘my husband?’

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10
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How does Iago summarise his role in the events

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‘I told him what I thought, and no more than what he found himself was apt and true’

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How does Emilia insinuate Othello as a monster

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‘lay thee down and roar’

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‘you told a lie…

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…an odious, damned lie’

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13
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How does Othello react to the true events being revealed to him

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‘I am not valiant neither’

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What does Emilia say about Desdemona as she dies

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‘she loved thee cruel Moor’

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Othello hellish references in his monologue (2)

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  • ‘whip me ye devils’
  • ‘roast me in sulphur’
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16
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How does Othello reference his lack of reputation (2)

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  • ‘he that was Othello’
  • calls himself a ‘malignant and turbaned Turk’
17
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How Othello attempt to reclaim his reputation (3)

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  • ‘an honourable murder…for naught I did in hate’
  • ‘speak of me as I am’
  • ‘one that loved not wisely but too well’
18
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Iago’s final words

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‘demand me nothing. What you know, you know’

19
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What does Lodovico say about the scene in front of him

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‘the object poisons sight’