Act 5 Flashcards
(Roderigo causal immortality)
I have no great devotion to the deed
(Roderigo causal immortality). And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons
Tis but a man gone. Forth, my sword: he dies
(Iago purloining)
Gold and jewels that I bobb’d from him, as gifts to Desdemona
(Iago’s scheming) And he grows angry.
Now whether he kill Cassio, or Cassio him, or each do kill the other, every way makes my gain
(Iago’s duplicity) “the same indeed,
a very valiant fellow
(Dramatic irony) ……and cannot make away
I think one of them is hereabout
(Roderigo last words)
O damn’d Iago, O inhuman dog
“Gentlemen all,
I do suspect this trash To be a party in this injury.”
“Look you pale, mistress?
Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?
Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon.
Behold her well; I pray you, look upon her: Do you see, gentlemen? nay guiltiness will speak, through tongues were out of use
(Narrative climax)
This is the night that either makes me or fordoes me quite
(Narrative climax)
This is the night that either makes me or fordoes me quite
(Othello rationalising murder)
Yet, I’ll not shed her blood; nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow
(Othello rationalising murder)
Yet, I’ll not shed her blood; nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow
I would not kill thy unprepared spirit; no; heaven forfend! I would not kill thy soul
And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men
If you say
so I hope you will not kill me
(Othello split between love & fury) Sweet soul
Take heed, take heed of perjury; thou art on thy deathbed
(Othello ruthlessness)
Down, strumpet
Kill me to-morrow
let me live to-night….but half an hour, but while I say one prayer
(Othello aware of consequences)
My wife! My wife! what wife? I have no wife. O insupportable! O heavy hour
(Desdemona loyalty)
Nobody; I myself. Farewell Commend me to my kind lord. O farewell
(Othello confusion)
You heard her say herself, it was not I…She’s, like a liar, gone to burning hell: Twas I was that kill’d her
(Desdemona virtue)
O, the more angel she, And you the blacker devil
(Othello impetuous)
Thou art rash as fire, to say that she was false: O she heavenly true
(Iago duplicity) twas he that told me first
An honest man he is, and hates the slime that sticks on filthy deeds
(Emilia berates Iago)
“You told a lie, an odious, damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.”
Unlike Desdemona, Emilia’s obedience to her husband is not unconditional
“Good gentlemen, let me have leave to speak: ‘Tis proper I obey him but not now.
(Emilia describes Desdemona’s virtue)
“Nay, lay thee down and roar; For thou hast kill’d the sweetest innocent That e’er did lift up eye.”
(Brabantio died of a broken heart) “Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father’s dead
Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain:”
Unlike Desdemona, Emilia’s obedience to her husband is not unconditional
“Twill out, ‘twill out: I peace! No, I will speak as liberal as the north
Iago loses the esteem of the Venetian nobles
Fie, your sword upon woman?
(Emilia describes Iago as a murderous fool)……what should such a fool Do with so good a woman?”
“O murderous coxcomb!
(Othello mourns the loss of his honour more than his wife and contemplates suicide)
“But why should honour outlive honesty? Let it go all.”
(Othello evades personal responsibility by blaming the the stars for Desdemona’s death) “Where should Othello go? Now, how dost thou look now?
O ill-starr’d wench! Pale as thy smock!
(Lodovico description of Othello)
Where is this rash and most unfortunate man
(Othello concerned on reputation) “Why, any thing
An honourable murderer if you will; for nought I did in hate, but all in honour
(Lodovico description of Othello)
“O thou Othello, thou wert once so good, Fall’n in the practise of a damned slave”
(Iago bitter and spiteful to the end)
Demand me nothing, what you know: from this time forth I never will speak another word
(Cassio appointed general )
you must forsake this room, and go with us: your power and your command is taken off, And Cassio rules in Cyprus
(Iago villainy)
“O Spartan dog, More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea! Look on the tragic loading of this bed; This is thy work”
(Othello last words are to Desdemona)
“I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee: no way but this; Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.”
(Othello reputation)
“Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous”
(justice will be done) To you lord governor
Remains the censure of this hellish villain; The time, the place, the torture: O, enforce it!”
