Act Three, Scene Three pt.2 Flashcards

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O: Knows all qualities with a learned spirit

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> just used Othello’s own weakness against him
truth but uses it for different reasons

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O: Her jesses were my dear heartstrings

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> D holding onto his heart
sordid imagery - falconry
used by both Iago and Othello
D prized possession
love central to his downfall

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3
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O: For I am black
O: For I am declined into the vale of years

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> Cassio has something he doesn’t
insecurity rife

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4
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O: We can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites

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> motif of consumption
Othello knows little about sex
Iago rubbing off on him
‘we’ and ‘ours’ - aligning with male entitlement over women

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O: Toad

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> similar to Iago’s animal imagery
associated with witches and poison

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6
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O: Forked plague

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> explicit reference to cuckold horns

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7
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Soliloquy significance

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> first one given
typically associated with Iago
O not needed as thoughts have aligned with actions
I’s influence on him

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8
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O: If she be false heaven mocks itself
O: I’ll not believe it

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> certainty when he sees her
symbol of hope
deification

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9
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O: I have a pain upon my forehead

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> physical shock
dramatic engineering

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10
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The Handkerchief falls, unnoticed

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> critical prop - holds up plot

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E: My wayward husband

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> glimpse she understands Iago’s tendencies
female soliloquy - profound

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12
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E: I nothing but to please his fantasy

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> bound by honour
adherence to societal expectations
betraying Desdemona for Iago

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13
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I: Snatching it

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> rare verb choice
desperation
intense emotional involvement in his scheme
uses his surrounding - spontaneous

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14
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I: Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons

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> thoughts are poisonous
narrating his own achievement

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15
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I: Act upon the blood burn like mines of sulfur

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> volcano - cataclysmic reaction
physically working through his body
just saw O’s headache

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16
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I: Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep

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> subconscious troubled
epitome of villainous speech
irreversible damage
compounds tragic inevitability

17
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O: Ha, ha, false to me?

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> laughing/ talking to himself

18
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O: Thou hast set me on the rack

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> tortuous imagery
rack - medieval torture device
believes infidelity to be fact

19
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O: Better to be much abused

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> better she had slept with multiple people that just one

20
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O: Give me the ocular proof

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> Othello demanding
belief is there