Act 1 Scene 3 Quotes Flashcards
Senator: ‘We must not think that the ______________________ to leave that latest which concerns him first”
Turk is so unskillful
Analyse ‘We must not think that the Turk is so unskillful to leave that latest which concerns him first”
-Dramatic Irony saying that we should not underestimate the Turks parallels how the characters underestimate Iago and his deceptiveness despite being acutely aware of this other issues
-start of the EXTENDED MEtAPHOR of an ‘other’/enemy being active
Brabantio: ‘She is __________, ________ from me and __________ by spells and medicines’
abused, stolen
corrupted
Analyse “We must not think that the Turk is so unskillful to leave that latest which concerns him first”
POLYPTOTON (using the same root word)of Othello as an abuser
Brabantio: ‘To fall in love with what _______________________’
she feared to look upon
Analyse ‘to fall in love with what she feared to look upon’
-Perpetuating racial stereotypes
-Brabantio passing these views onto Desdemona, or so he thinks
‘Our bodies are _______, to which our wills are our ____________’
gardens
gardeners
Analyse ‘‘Our bodies are gardens, to which our wills are our gardeners’
-METAPHOR illustrating how you can control your willpower and gear it to achieve your goals, and that you can turn your back on morality to achieve what you desire.
- Biblical ALLUSION to the Garden of Eden which acts as a warning of why we should avoid temptation, so Iago deliberately luring Roderigo to be lustful telling him to act on his own desires is Iago promoting immorality
-subverting the very teachings of the bible which says that the ultimate gardener should be God not humans trying to cultivate their own faith, characterises Iago as an immoral MACHIAVELLIAN with deceptive and cunning nature
Brabantio: ‘So we let the Turk of Cyprus _________ we lost it not so long ______________’
as beguile
as we can smile
Analyse ‘So we let the Turk of Cyprus as beguile we lost it not so long as we can smile’
-HYPERBOLE of the personal and the political, rejects this solution, comparing Othello to the Turks to highlight the impact of him entering Brabantio’s family to be of the same impact as a foreign invasion, using his personal circumstances likening it to the political to highlight the severity.
-Indicates that Othello’s ‘otherness’ and blackness will haunt him and taint the way others perceive him and his family, shows Brabantio’s concern with social status over the happiness of his daughter
‘Look to her moor, __________________, she has deceived her _______, and may _____’
if thou hast eyes to see
father
thee
Analyse ‘Look to her moor, if thou hast eyes to see, she has deceived her father, and may thee’
-CAESURA places a warning that if she can fool Brabantio than she can also deceive Othello, changes Othello’s perspective and he will try to keep this in mind going forward
-typical of the tragic genre to provide the audience with a hint of what is about to come, hard for Desdemona to escape this fate
