Act 4 Scene 2 Flashcards
Summary
Othello asks Emilia about desdemona being unfaithful and she defends her innocence.
He then is cruel to desdemona
Desdemona is upset/ already foregrounds her death and says she will always love her husband
Emilia defends des innocence
“She is honest”
“If any wretch have put this in your head, let heaven requite it with the serpents curse”
Ironic
Othello is cruel about Emilia
“Subtle whore”
Sexual disgust
Treatment of women
Also highlights othellos change
Desdemona pleads her innocence
“Your wife, my lord, your true and loyal wife”
Othello as a cuckhokd
“All kind of sores and Shames on my bare head”
Othello public humiliation
“A fixed figure for the time of scorn”
What does othello call des ?
“Whore”
“Public commoner”
“I took you for that cunning whore of Venice that married with othello”
How is iago a skilled antagonist here?
He adopts role of confused bystander
Asks questions
Short sentences
“Do not weep” however he is the cause
Emilia reminds us of desdemonas loyalty to othello ?
“She forsook so many noble matches, her father, and her country, and her friends to be called whore?”
Emilia says othello has been tricked
“The moors abysed by some most villainous knacks”
How has he lost his identity
“Cunning whore of Venice that married othello “
Hell imagery othello
“Grim as hell”
She is “false as hell”
Emilia sushspexts
Othello has been manipulated by some “eterna villain” but never suspects it’s her husband
Iagos changed role
He says strangle in her death bed about des in last scene
But acts sympathetic to her sayinf “weep not; all things shall be well”
3 faced
Roderigo in this scene
“Words and oersomdonaces are no Kim together”
Easily manipulated again “I see there’s nettles in theee”
