Act Two, Scene Three Flashcards
O: Iago is most honest
> irony - constantly called
strengthening effect of previous scene/
total unawareness
O: Fruits are to ensue; that profit’s yet to come ‘tween me and you
> implies marriage not yet consummated
I: Made wanton the night with her
I: Sport for Jove
I: Full of game
> prurient - thinks of lovemaking and physical attractiveness
sexual/ enticing
C: Most exquisite
C: Fresh and delicate
C: Indeed perfection
C: Right modest
> respect and admiration
sees D as innocent and pure
I: Happiness to their sheets!
> emotionally disturb Cassio
forcing mental images onto him
provoke strong emotions
did same to Brabantio
I: But see his vice
I: Prologue to his sleep
> Cassio = drunkard
capable of convincing others a falsehood is a truth
I: ‘Tis pity of him
M: ‘Tis great pity
> repeats Iago’s line - mind has been influenced
Iago successful at convincing former Governor of Cyprus
I: I do love Cassio and would do much to cure him of this evil
> hypocrisy
Iago = evil
O: And we turned Turks
O: Barbarous brawl
O: For Christian shame
> contrasts between Turks and Christians, barbarism and civilisation
sense of responsibility
wedding night interrupted
O: ‘Tis monstrous
> parallelism
goes against natural order or power/ civility
I: Touch me not so near
> implication that Cassio and Iago are good friends
iambic pentameter - structured
O: My blood begins my safer guides to rule
> beneath outward composure, capable of powerful emotion
increases credibility of jealousy later on
O: Give me to know how this foul rout began
> voice of reason
commands
speaks with authority
O: Honest Iago
> unaware he has fomented situation
fight scene
> tense and exciting action
important visual image
prev. scene - return of peace and security
I: Men in rage strike those that wish them best
I: Men are men
> mitigate offence
men are bound to base instincts
influencing Othello’s judgement
D: What’s the matter, dear?
> brief appearance - disturbed public order AND harmony of wedding night
I: Friends all but now
I: Like bride and groom divesting them for bed
> brawl prefigures conflict between lovers later on
C: Reputation, reputation, reputation
> refrain
poetic speech, magnitude
C: I have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial
> immortal - renaissance ideology
bestial lost humanity
identity, social standing taken
correspondence between man’s nature and public report
C: Past all surgery
> metaphor - worst pain he could receive
I: Idle and most false imposition
I: There are ways to recover the General again
> downplays what happens
Othello only obliged to punish
dialogue highlights Iago + Cassio conflicting views
C: So slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet
> lamentations
triadic structure
exclamative
C: Let us call thee devil
> wine is the devil
Iago is actually the devil behind it
social attitude to alcohol - sinful
C: The devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath
> repulsed from loss of status - sobered him up
self hatred
C: Presently a beast
> motif
I: Our general’s wife is now the general
> Desdemona’s presence over Othello
power dynamic shift- Cassio = higher class and rank
I: She holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested
> excellent at reading characters
C: You advice me well
> irony
I: Th’ inclining Desdemona
I: (Othello’s) Weak function
> deliberate sexual innuendo
I: Framed as fruitful as the free elements
> fricative
abundant imagery
I: Renounce his baptism
I: Sin
I: Soul is so enfettered to her love
> Othello’s religious identity (recent conversion)
I: Her appetite shall play the god
> motif of consumption
easily overcome by desires
I: Divinity of hell!
> oxymoronic
supernatural incantations
faustian imagery
paradoxical blending good and evil
pleasure in chaos
I: When devils will the blackest sins put on they do suggest at first with heavenly shows
> edenic imagery - Garden of Eden and ‘the fall’
soliloquy referring to devil appearing in form of snake and coaxing Eve
aligns himself with the devil
I: Pestilence into his ear
> words are poison
Hamlet similarity
I: Virtue into pitch
> pitch = sticky, molten, pitch black
pervert innocence into guilt
theme of corruption
I: The net that shall enmesh them all
> use Desdemona’s good nature as the downfall
net - act 2, scene 1 reference
I: My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress
I: Myself the while to draw the Moor apart
> Emelia to encourage Cassio and Desdemona
Make Othello see Desdemona and Cassio talking
