Act 4, Scene 1 Flashcards
Significance of opening scene in mid convo
Shows that Othello hasn’t dropped the subject, he is paranoid. Madness, jealous.
Emotionally overwhelmed
No respect for him as he is foolish but we do sumpathise with him
Othellos language
He interrupts iago
Demanding/ aggressive / violent/ loss of control
“What then?”
Loss of iambic tetrameter
Iago sexual positions / disgust / humiliation
“With her, on her”
Fragmented languages shows degraded character
“Handkerchief - confessions - handkerchief”
Loss of control
[he falls in a trance]
Foolish
Loss of control
“My lord is falln unto an epliplepsy”
Iago poison imagery / food / Othello gullible
“Medicine work! Credulous fools”
“Savage madness”
Orhello thinks iago is mocking him
Iago asks “have you hurt your head” Othello thinks he’s referring to him as a cuckhold
“Horned mans a monster and a beast”
Othello violent thoughts
“Most blood”
Iago clever plot
Admirable
Fooling Othello in direct view
Promotes Othello is jealousy even further
“Unbookish jealousy”
Watch him rapidly deteriorate
Cassio cruel about Blanca
“What a customer?”
“She haunts me in every place”
Biancas significance
She’s enters talking about the des handkerchief
Othello first hints at murder of cassio
“How shall I murder him?”
“ I would have him nine years a killing”
“Let her rot and perish… for she shall not live”
Othello has no love left in him
“My heart is turned to stone”
Violence Othello
“Chop her into messes”
I had exploited privacy
Sexual humiliation
“Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated”
Public humiliation for des
“Devil”
He strikes her
“What would you with her, sir”
Asks if lodovico wants her
