Act 5 Flashcards
Iago on almost finishing his plan
“I have rubbed this young quat almost to the sense”
Iago on Cassio
“He hath a daily beauty in his life / That makes me ugly”
O on D’s eyes
“Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes are blotted”
O on killing D on their bed
“Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted”
Bianca standing by for herself
“I am no strumpet, / But of life as honest as you that thus / Abuse me”
O on how he will kill D
“Yet I’ll not shed her blood, not scar that whiter skin of hers than snow”
O on killing D (Macbeth)
“Put out the light, and then put out the light”
O realising the enormity of murder
“I know not where is that Promethean heat /That can thy light relume”
O conflict, personifiying himself
“doth almost persuade / Justice to break her sword”
O legalistic language of confession
“If you bethink yourself of any crie / Unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace, / Solicit for it straight”
D on O’s murderous change
“Some bloody passion shakes you very frame: / These are portents”
D after knowing Cassio has been injured
“Alas, he is betrayed and I am undone”
O realising the seriousness of the murder in cosmic terms
“Methinks it should now a huge eclipse / Of sun and moon and that t’affrighted globe / Should yawn at alteration”
O trying to cover up his act
“Let me the curtains draw”
O mirroring Iago’s tuning quote
“Then murder’s out of tune”
D’s last words
“A guiltless death I die”
E’s racially driven insult of O
“O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil”
Antithesis of E and O
“She was false as water.” “Thou art rash as fire”
O showing the materialistic nature of his love of D
“If heaven would make me such another world / Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, I’d not have old her for it”
E commenting on the villainous nature of the murder
“villainy has made mocks with love” (“If she be false o, then Heaven mocks me”)
E turning O’s commercial language against him
“She was too fond of her most filthy bargain”
E defying Iago
“I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak”
O personifying himself and D
“Why should Honour outlive Honesty?”
O first signs to the audience that he is considering suicide”
“Here is my journey’s end, here is my butt / And very sea-mark of my utmost sail”
