Brabantio Flashcards

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Brabantio suggests that daughters are deceptive

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‘trust not your daughter’s minds By what you see them act’

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Brabantio claims ownership over Desdemona by implying she has been stolen

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‘O thou foul thief!’

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Brabantio makes an accusation of witchcraft

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‘thou hast enchanted her’

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Brabantio suggests Othello has trapped Desdemona with witchcraft

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‘chains of magic’

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Brabantio describes Desdemona with a list

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‘a maid so tender, fair, and happy’

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Desdemona rejected many venetian men

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‘she shun’d the wealthy curled darlings of our nation’

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Brabantio dehumanises Othello

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‘sooty bosom of such a thing as thou’

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Brabantio claims Othello has used potions to bewitch Desdemona

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‘abus’d her delicate youth with drugs or minerals that weakens motion’

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Brabantio is overly dramatic about the situation and interrupts the senate

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‘my particular grief is of so flood-gate and o’erbearing nature’

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Brabantio suggests Desdemona is ruined and taken away from him

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‘she is abus’d, stol’n from me, and corrupted’

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Brabantio claims that Desdemona would have been afraid of Othello

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‘to fall in love with what she fear’d to look on’

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Brabantio claims it is unnatural for them to be together

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‘Against all rules of nature’

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Desdemona’s loyalty is questioned by Brabantio

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‘where most you owe obedience?’

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Brabantio is grateful he has no more daughters after Desdemona’s marriage to Othello

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‘For your sake jewel, I am glad at soul I have no other child for thy escape would teach me tyranny’

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