Act 2 Flashcards
Act 2, Scene 1: Othello
‘warlike Moor Othello’
(O my fair warrior…
My dear Othello
O my soul’s joy)
- desdemona and othello
Act 2, Scene 3 Othello
Iago
Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter, / Making it light to Cassio - Othello (Iago, I realize that your affection for Cassio makes you downplay what he has done)
Iago is most honest - Othello
Now, by heaven. My blood begins my safer guides to rule, / And passion having my best judgment collied
- Now, by heaven, my anger starts to overwhelm my reason, and passion is working to take over my good judgment.
All’s well now sweeting; come away to bed
Act 2 Scene 3
Act 2, Scene 1 Iago
(Aside) oh, you are well tuned now, / But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music, As honest as I am. - on Othello you are happy now, but I’ll ruin your happiness, no matter how honest you may think I am.
Knavery’s plain face is never seen till used - Evil plots never reveal themselves fully until they’ve worked
‘if she be black, and thereto have a wit, She’ll find a white that shall her blackness fit’ = Iago
Bells in your parlours, wild cats in your kitchens / Saints in your injuries, devils being offended / players in your housewifery, and house wives in your beds
[He kisses her] Cassio kissing Emilia
Didst thou not see her paddle with the palm of his hand? - iago twisting cassio’s performative nature
( aside ) He takes her by the palm…With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.
Act 2 Scene 3, Iago on Cassio stuff
If i can fasten but one cup upon him / With that which he hath drunk tonight already / He’ll be as full of quarrel and offense As my young mistress’ dog
(If I can get him to have just one drink, together with what he’s already had to drink, he’ll be as belligerent and testy as a badly trained as a young girl’s pet dog.)
I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth / Than it should do offense to Michael Cassio, / Yet I persuade myself to speak the truth / Shall nothing wrong him
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
Our general’s wife is now the general
Confess yourself freely to her, importune her help to put you in your place again
Apologize to her, and beg her to help you regain your place as lieutenant.
Act 2, Scene 1: Desdemona
O heavy ignorance! Thou praisest the worst best - To Iago about conversation about woman
‘O, fie upon thee, slanderer!’ - desdemona to iago
Act 2, Scene 3: Desdemona
(So will I turn her virtue into pitch, / And out of her own goodness make the net / That shall enmesh them all) - Iago about desdemona
Act 2, Scene 3: Cassio
She’s a most exquisite lady .
Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Act 2, Scene 1: Cassio
(Our great Captain’s captain)
Divine Desdemona
The essential vesture of creation
[He kisses her] Cassio kissing Emilia
Act 2 Scene 3 Iago (soliloquies
what’s he … that says I play the villain?
When this advice is free I give and honest
Divinity of Hell!
When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows / When devils do the worst sins, they first put on the pretense of goodness and innocence, as I am doing now.
So will I turn her virtue into pitch, / And out of her own goodness make the net / That shall enmesh them all
Act 2 Scene 1 Iago soliloquy
(To diet my revenge, / For that I do suspect the lusty Moor / Hath leap’d into my seat, the thought whereof / Doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards)
Ill… make the Moor thank me, love me, reward me For making him egregiously an ass
‘Till I am evened with him wife for wife”
Her eye must be fed - Iago to Roderigo
put the Moor / …into a jealousy so strong / That judgement cannot cure
