Act 1 Flashcards
Act 1, Scene 1: Iago
‘I know my price, I am worth no worse a place
‘We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed’
‘Many a duteous knee crooking knave … doting on his own obsequious bondage … whip me such honest knaves’ - Dutiful people / Stuck on things / Punish them
‘his eyes had seen the proof’
‘when they have lined their coats, do themselves homage. These fellows have some soul. And such a one do I profess myself’
“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at. I am not what I am”
‘in following him, I follow but myself’
‘look to your house, your daughters, your bags!’
Act 1, Scene 2: Iago
‘By Janus, I think no’
Act 1, Scene 3: Iago
‘A man he is of honesty and trust’ - Othello
Virtue? A fig! ‘Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to which our souls are gardeners
‘put money in thy purse’
‘Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against him … provide thy money” - to Roderigo to collude / loyalty
‘Thus do I ever make my fool my purse’ - Roderigo
Act 1, Scene 2: Othello
‘My services which I have done the signiory Shall out tongue his complaints’
‘My parts, my title and my perfect soul Shall manifest me rightly’
Thou hast enchanted her! - Barbantio
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them Good Signior, you shall more command with years Than with your weapons. - Othello responds to Barbantio with his weapons he has soldiers Barbantio has armed guards also reminder of old Barbantio and strong Othello
‘the valiant Moor’
“but that I love the gentle Desdemona…put into circumscription and confine/ For the sea’s worth”
Act 1, Scene 3: Othello
‘Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors… Rude am I in my speech… I won his daughter’
‘I do confess the vices of my blood’
‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her for she did pity them This is the only witchcraft I have used ‘
‘Your son-in-law is far more fair than black’
‘The Moor is of free and open nature, That thinks men honest that but seem to be so … led by th’ nose as
asses are’
Act 1, Scene 1: Desdemona
‘Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds / By what you see them act’ - Brabantio
Act 1, Scene 2: Desdemona
foul thief, where hast thou stow’d my daughter - Barbantio
‘abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals’ - Barbantio
Act 1, Scene 3: Desdemona
‘to fall in love with what she fear’d to look on’ - Brabantio
‘I saw Othello’s visage in his mind’ - saw Othello’s true self after seeing his mind
‘Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. / She has deceived her father and may thee.’
‘She’d come again with a greedy ear / Devour up my discourse’
Act 1, Scene 1: Cassio
‘As masterly as he; mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership’
“preferment” gained through “letter and affection”
Act 1, Scene 1: Othello
A lascivious Moor
… tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes In an extravagant and wheeling stranger of here and everywhere
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram / is tupping your white ewe- iago
Act 1 Scene 1 Roderigo
“Thick lips”
