Act 3 Flashcards
Cassio thanking D
“I am much bound to you”
D reassuring Cassio
“I will do / all my abilities on thy behalf”
D explaining C’s suffering to O
“He hath left part of his grief with me / to suffer with him”
Othello chaos quote
“When I love thee not, / chaos is come again”
Iago on reputation to Othello
“Good name in a man - and woman - dear my lord, / Is the immediate jewelof their souls”
Jealousy quote
” O beware my lord of jealousy! / It is the green eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on”
Othello decalaring he won’t be jealous
“Nor from my own weak merits will I draw / The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, / For she had eyes and chose me. / No, Iago, I’ll see before I doubt”
Iago on women’s disposition
“I know our country’s diposition well:/ In Venice they do not let God see pranks / They dare not show their husbands”
Iago on D’s attraction to O
“One may smell in such a will most rank / Foul disproportions, thoughts unnatural”
O on if D is unfaithful
“If I do prove her haggard / Though her jesses were my dear heartstrings, / I’d whistle her off and let her down the wind / To prey at fortune”
O on marriage
“O curse of marriage, / That we may call these delicate creatures ours / And not their appetites”
O on being a toad
“I had rather be a toad / And live upon the vapours of the dungeon / Than keep a corner in the things I love / For others’ uses”
Othello Macbeth quote - ignorance is bliss
“Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content”
O on D’s infedelity - face
“Her name, that was as fresh,/ As Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black / As mine own face”
O calling upon black vengence
“Arise, black Vengence from thy hollow hell, / Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne / To tyrannous Hate”
Iago pledging himself to O
“Witness that here Iago doth give up / The execution of his wit, hands, heart / To wronged Othello’s service
O damning D
“Damn her lewd minx! O, damn her, damn her!”
D defending O’s noble mind
“my noble moor / Is true of mind, and made of no such baseness / As jealous creatures are”
O on hands
“A liberal hand … our new heraldry is hands, not hearts”
Emilia on men
“They are all but stomachs, we are all but food; / They eat us hungerly, and when they are full / They belch us”
Cassio existing again
“by virtuous means, I may again / Exist and be a member of his love”
D on her lord
“My lord is not my lord”
D on O’s changed nature
“puddled his clear spirit”
D on men
“Nay we must think men are not god”
