Act 2 Scene 1 Flashcards
What is uncertain?
Whether othellos ship will survive the storm
How does Iago criticise women?
He says “you rise to play and go to bed to work”
What does Iago plot to do?
Plots to use Cassio’s hand holding frame with desdamona so he looses his role as lietuenant - “with as little web as this will i ensnare as great a fly as Cassio”
What does Iago convince Roderigo?
Of Cassio’s ill intentions with desdamona and convinces him to start a quarrel with Cassio
Quote about Othello being good to desdamona from Iago?
“The Moor is of a constant loving noble nature and i dare think hell prove it to desdamona, a most dear husband”
How does Iago reinforce jealousy?
“Yet I put the moor at least into a jealousy so strong”
“For i have served him, and the man commands like a full soldier”
Heightening his role as a good soldier
“Players in your housewifery and housewives in your beds”
Don’t take their jobs as housewives seriously
“He takes her by the palm, ay well said”
Uses Cassio holding desdamona hand as part of his plan
“But that our loves and comforts should increase even as our days do grow”
Love should get stronger as they get older
“O, you are well tuned now, but I’ll set down the pegs that make this music as honest as i am”
Iago will ruin othellos happiness
“If she had been blessed, she would never have loved the moor”
If desdamona had morals she wouldn’t of married othello
