Act Three, Scene Three pt.2 Flashcards
O: Knows all qualities with a learned spirit
> just used Othello’s own weakness against him
truth but uses it for different reasons
O: Her jesses were my dear heartstrings
> D holding onto his heart
sordid imagery - falconry
used by both Iago and Othello
D prized possession
love central to his downfall
O: For I am black
O: For I am declined into the vale of years
> Cassio has something he doesn’t
insecurity rife
O: We can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites
> motif of consumption
Othello knows little about sex
Iago rubbing off on him
‘we’ and ‘ours’ - aligning with male entitlement over women
O: Toad
> similar to Iago’s animal imagery
associated with witches and poison
O: Forked plague
> explicit reference to cuckold horns
Soliloquy significance
> first one given
typically associated with Iago
O not needed as thoughts have aligned with actions
I’s influence on him
O: If she be false heaven mocks itself
O: I’ll not believe it
> certainty when he sees her
symbol of hope
deification
O: I have a pain upon my forehead
> physical shock
dramatic engineering
The Handkerchief falls, unnoticed
> critical prop - holds up plot
E: My wayward husband
> glimpse she understands Iago’s tendencies
female soliloquy - profound
E: I nothing but to please his fantasy
> bound by honour
adherence to societal expectations
betraying Desdemona for Iago
I: Snatching it
> rare verb choice
desperation
intense emotional involvement in his scheme
uses his surrounding - spontaneous
I: Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons
> thoughts are poisonous
narrating his own achievement
I: Act upon the blood burn like mines of sulfur
> volcano - cataclysmic reaction
physically working through his body
just saw O’s headache
I: Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
> subconscious troubled
epitome of villainous speech
irreversible damage
compounds tragic inevitability
O: Ha, ha, false to me?
> laughing/ talking to himself
O: Thou hast set me on the rack
> tortuous imagery
rack - medieval torture device
believes infidelity to be fact
O: Better to be much abused
> better she had slept with multiple people that just one
O: Give me the ocular proof
> Othello demanding
belief is there
binary thinking
O: Farewell
O: Othello’s occupation gone!
> lost his military identity
grandeur of words contrast with internal chaos
believes he is tainted
language of pageantry
existential - no honour
tragic inevitability point of no return
self-eulogy - mourning himself
I: Are you a man?
> attacking his masculinity
appeals to his humanity
I: For honesty’s a fool
> suggests truthfulness is naivety
cynical
I: Behold her topped
> visual proof
crude imagery
from subtle hints to graphic imagery
O sees betrayal without ever witnessing it
