Act 3 scene 3 Flashcards
(Desdemona virtue)
If I do vow a friendship, I’ll perform it to the last article
(Desdemona virtue) board a shrift
I’ll intermingle everything he does with Cassio’s suit
(Iago insinuation)
Ha I like not that
Cassio, my lord! No, sure, I cannot think it that he would steal away so guilty-like, seeing you coming
(Desdemona persistence)
But shall’t be shortly?…. Shall’t be to-night at supper?… to-morrow dinner, then?……Why, then to-morrrow night: or Tuesday morn; On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn
(Othello poor judgement of character)
This fellow’s of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit
(Othello insecurities)
for I am black and have not those soft parts of conversation that chamberers have, or for I am declined into the vale of years
(Misogyny)
O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites
(Othello losing control of emotions)
Excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, chaos is come again
(Iago insinuation)
Did Michael Cassio, when you woo’d my lady, know of your love
(Iago tactical evasion) therefore …. for such things
these stops of thine fright me the more
(Iago tactical understatement ) I do beseech you
though I perchance am vicious in my guess
Good name
in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls
but
he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor instead
(Iago malicious)
O beware my lord of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on
(Othello hastiness)
to be once in doubt is once resolved
(Iago insinuation) speak not yet of proof
Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio
(Iago playing on Othello’s insecurities)
I know our country disposition well; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks they dare not show their husbands; their best conscience is not to leave’t undone, but keep’t unknown
(Iago playing on Othello’s insecurities) she
she did deceive her father marrying you
(Iago wry irony)but Desdemona’s honest
long live she so! and long live you to think so!
( Iago tactical understatement)
My lord , I would I might entreat your honour to scan this thing no further; leave it to time
( Iago tactical understatement) In the mean time
Let me be thought too busy in my fears
(Emilia transgression)found this napkin:
this was her first remembrance if the moor
(Emilia transgression) but
she so loves the token
(Emilia transgression)keep it, that
she reserves it evermore about her to kiss and talk to. I’ll have the work ta’en out, And give’t Iago: what will we he do with it Heaven knows
(Iago scheming)
trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ
(Othello in distress)
thou hast set me on the rack
(Othello in distress) (O damaged pride)O, now for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plume troop and the big wars, that make ambition virtue! O, farewell! farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump
(O damaged pride) the royal banner, and
all quality, pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war
(O damaged pride) dead clamours counterfeit
Farewell! Othello’s occupations gone
(Othello demand for proof) be sure of it
give me the ocular proof
(Othello incandescent rage) man’s eternal soul
thou hadst been better have been born a dog than answer my waked wrath
(Othello tragedy)
On horror’s head horrors accumulate
(Othello bewilderment)
I think my wife be honest and think she is not; I think thou art just and think thou art not
(Othello internalises racist stereotypes)
her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face
(Iago lewd profanity)
Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on – behold her topp’d?… It is impossible you should see this, were they as primed as goats, as hot as monkeys, As salt as wolves in pride
(Iago bare-faced lies)
I lay with Cassio lately
(Iago tactical understatement)
Nay, this was but a dream
(Othello racist)
Arise black vengeance, from thy hollow cell
(Othello violence)
O, blood, blood, blood
my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, shall ne’er look back
(Iago duplicity)
witness, you-ever burning lights above, you elements that clip us round about, witness that here Iago doth give up the execution of his wit, hands, heart, to wrong’d Othello’s service
(Othello violence)
within these three days let me hear thee say that Cassio’s not alive
(dramatic Irony)
but my noble moor is true of mind and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are
(Othello tests Iago’s reports)
I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me; Lend me thy handkerchief…fetch me the handkerchief, my mind mistakes
(Emilia’s cynicism)
tis not a year or two shows us a man; they are all but stomachs and we all but food; to eat us hungrerly, and when they are full, they belch us out
(Desdemona describing Othello’s downfall)
My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him
