Act 1 Scene 3 Flashcards
What happens in this scene?
Brabantio goes to the senator/Duke and accuses Othello of using magic for his daughter, Desemonda, to fall in love with him. First time we see Desdemona and have Othello’s personal and professional lives cross over.
“Valliant …..
Othello/Moor”
The Duke addresses Othello before Brabantion and stops his important conversation for him.
Othello - “Rude I am in my speech // And little …
blessed with the soft phrase of peace;”
Suggesting he is inarticulate and unsophisticated but doesn’t match his claim as he goes on to make a big speech
Othello - “Send for the ……
lady to the Sagittary”
Significant as it is a man’s world and Othello has just asked for Desedemona.
Shakespeare playing against prejudice again
Othello - “Her father loved me, oft …..
invited my, // Still questioned me the story of my life”
Suggestion that Brabantio could have encouraged Desdemona to fall in love with Othello.
Othello - “My stories being done, // …….
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs”
Falls in love due to the stories rather than for Othello’s personality; could suggest they’re doomed from the start
Othello - “She loved me for the dangers …
I had passed // And I loved her, that she did pity them”
Not as solid as the relationship once seemed
Desdemona - “My noble father, // ……
I do perceive her a divided duty”
Honest personality, Shakespeare doesn’t present her as a typically weak Elizabethan woman.
Brabantion - “Look to her, Moor, if thou …
hast eyes to see // She has deceived her father and may thee.”
Brabantio is planting the seed in which Iago will later work upon, suggesting that the relationship between parent child is much stronger than lovers therefore it will mean less to her if she were to betray Othello in the same way.
Iago - “Are bodies are our garden, ….
to which our wills are gardeners”
Metaphore of gardens to push forward that Roderigo is not in control for his own emotions -later goes against Othello, is foreshadowing.
Iago - “Put money …
in thy purse”
Iago is trying to persuade Roderigo that the raltionship won’t last due to it happening quickly therefore it will end quickly as well.
Only sees it in a sexual way and not love as he is incapable of understanding the emotion.
