Act 1 Flashcards
What does the play begin in?
Media Res
What is the first oath that Iago makes? [S1]
”s’blood”
How does Iago show that he holds himself to a high value in the first scene? [S1]
“I know my price”
How is control shown within the first line of the play? [S1]
“That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine,”
How does Iago show Cassio’s wartime inexperience? [S1]
“Never set a squadron in the field”
What does Iago call Cassio? [S1]
(and what does it mean?)
a Florentine
(an outsider, someone from Florence)
What does Iago say that makes the audience know that Othello should not trust him? [S1]
“I follow him to serve my turn upon him”
What paradoxical phrase does Iago say that display his un-trustworthiness? [S1]
“I am not what I am”
What does Iago say that he wants to happen to Othello that clearly shows how much he despises the general? [S1]
“poison his delight”
“plague him with flies”
What does Iago tell Brabantio to look to when he informs him of the so called ‘robbery’? [S1]
“Look to your house, to your daughter, to your bags!”
What does Iago say to Brabantio to maintain the innocent image of his daughter but to portray an awful image of Othello? [S1]
“Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe!”
What does Iago refer to Othello as? (animalistically) [S1]
“a Barbary horse”
How does Iago crudely refer to Othello and Desdemona’s sexual relations? [S1]
“your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs”
What is Ironic about the fact that Brabantio says that his “house is not a grange”? [S1]
Desdemona being trapped in his house as though she were an animal almost contradicts this. The fact that Desdemona’s inferiority is dictated over by her Father then her husband makes her out to be an object or an animal and not a human.
How does Brabantio display that he does not want to believe that his daughter would run off and marry Othello? [S1]
His constant referral to witchcraft/magic:
“Is there not charms?”
