Act 2 Flashcards
Cassio describing Desdemona
“He hath ahieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame”
“our great ________ ________”
captain’s captain
” _____ to thee, _____; and the ______ of _______”
“hail to thee,lady; and the grace of heaven”
Iago on women’s work
“You rise to play and go to bed to work”
Iago on a woman being wise and fair
“If she be fair and wise: fairness and wit / The one’s for use, the other useth it”
Iago’s web quote
“With as little a web as this I will ensnare as great a fy as Cassio”
Othello on his soul’s joy
“O my soul’s joy / If after every tempest comes such calms, / May the winds blow until they have wakened death”
Iago’s tuning quote
“O, you are well tuned now! / But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music / As honest as I am”
Iago’s game quote
“When the blood is made dull with the act of sport, there should be a game to inflame it”
Cassio on reputation
“O, I have lost / my reputation, I have lost the immortal part of myself”
Cassio on deceiving Othello
“I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander”
Iago on Desdemona’s disposition
“She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition”
Iago on D’s appetite
“she may make, unmake, so what she list, / Even as her appetite shall play god / with his weak functions”
Iago pouring quote
“I’ll pour pestilence into his ear”
Iago on D’s virtue
“So will I turn her virtue into pitch,/ And out of her own goodness make the net / That shall enmesh them all”
