Act 3 Flashcards
Iago manipulating Othello saying his thoughts are wrong
“Utter my thoughts! Why say they are vile and false?” 3.3
Iago compares jealousy to a monster
“It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on” 3.3
Iago references Desdemona defying her father
“She did deceive her father, marrying you” 3.3
Othello starting to doubt himself
“Haply for I am black”
Othello explores nature of marriage and womanhood/ sexuality
“O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!” 3.3
Othello referencing the cuckold’s horns
“I have a pain upon my forehead”
Othello bids farewell to his past self
“Farewell! Othello’s occupation’s gone” 3.3
Othello losing his humanity, thinking about brutality towards desdemona
“I’ll tear her all to pieces” 3.3
Dramatic kneel, perverted marriage ceremony, Iago proclaims loyalty
“I am your own forever” 3.3
Desdemona hand is innocent
“It yet hath felt no age, nor known no sorrow” 3.4
Emilia describing objectifying nature of marriage (2)
“They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;”
“They eat us hungerly and when they are full, They belch us” 3.4
Desdemona noticing the change in Othello
“My lord is not my lord” 3.4
Emilia’s take on jealous people
“They are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they’re jealous” 3.4
Emilia’s role as a wife
“I nothing, but to please his fantasy”
Desdemona saying that we shouldn’t idealise men
“we must think men are not gods”
