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A Level English Lit Paper 1-Othello REDO INTO SCENES > Characterisation > Flashcards

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Who are the significant characters in Othello?

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  • Othello
  • Desdemona
  • Iago
  • Cassio
  • Brabantio
  • Roderigo
  • Emilia
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Othello
‘the gross clasps of …’ (Roderigo)

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‘gross clasps of a lacivious Moor’ (1,1)

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Iago
I follow him…

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‘I follow him to serve my turn upon him’ a1s1

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Cassio
“The ____ Desdemona”

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‘The divine Desdemona’ a2s1

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Othello
‘I ____ his daughter’
‘let her speak…’

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‘I won his daughter’ a1s3
‘let her speak before her father’

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Othello
‘the ____ affects in me _____’ a1s3

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‘the young affects in me defunct’ a1s3

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Othello
‘pertains to feats of….’ a1s2

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‘pertains to feats of broil and battle’ a1s2

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Desdemona
‘with a greedy ear…
‘draw from her… (Othello a1s3)

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‘with a greedy ear devour up my discourse’
‘draw from her a prayer of earnest heart

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Desdemona
‘my noble father I do perceive…
‘but here’s my husband:…’

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‘my noble father I do perceive a divided duty’ a1s3
‘but here’s my husband: And so much as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father”

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Desdemona
‘I saw Othello’s visage… a1s3

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‘I saw Othello’s visage in his mind’ a1s3

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What does Othello call Desdemona in A1S3?

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‘my fair warrior’
‘my soul’s joy’

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How does Iago and Cassio describe Desdemona in a2s3?

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Iago ‘she is sport for Jove’
Cassio ‘indeed she’s a most fresh and delicate creature’

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Iago paradox
‘were I the Moor, I would not be …’

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Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself’ a1s1

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Iago
‘I do suspect the ____ Moor hath… a2s1

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“I do suspect the lusty Moor hath leaped into my seat.. Doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards’ a2s1

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Iago describing Cassio
in a2s1

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a knave very voluble’
‘a slipper and subtle knave’ a2s1

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Cassio describing Desdemona in a2s1

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“ our great captain’s captain”
“a maid that paragons description and wild fame” a2s1
“the riches of the ship have come ashore”

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Brabantio
‘O ____ of the ____’ a1s1

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“ O treason of the blood” a1s1

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Brabantio’s lack of understanding of his daughter’s character
“she shunned the …. a1s2
“a maiden never ____, of spirit…. a1s3

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“ she shunned the wealthy, curled darlings of our nation” a1s2 137
“a maiden never bold, of spirit so still and quiet”

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Iago’s soliloquy outlining his plan to get Casssio drunk- depiction of Roderigo a2s3
‘my sick fool Roderigo, for whom love…

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‘my sick fool Roderigo, for whom love hath turned the wrong way out’

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Othello’s rage after Cassio hitting Montano a2s3
‘Are we turned Turks? and to ourselvs do that…
‘honest Iago.. on thy love…

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‘Are we turned Turks? and to ourselves do that which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?’
‘honest Iago… on thy love I charge thee’

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Othello is ruled by passion soliloquya2s3
My blood begins my safer guides to rule…

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,My blood begins my safer guides to rule and passion, having my best judgement collied, assays to lead the way

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Reputation Cassio a2s3
‘Reputation, reputation, reputation!… I have lost…

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I have lost the immortal part of myself- and what remains is bestial

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Reputation Iago a2s3
‘Reputation is an idle and…

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‘Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputatiotion at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser’

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Iago about Desdemona
a2s3
‘our general’s wife is now…
‘she is of so free, so kind, so…’

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‘our general’s wife is now the general’
‘she is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blest a disposition that she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested’

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Othello mirroring Iago’s language a3s3
‘Excellent ____! Perdition….’

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Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not chaos is come again’
-Desdemona also says ‘Whatever you be, I am obedient’ beforehand

26
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Iago manipulating his language to make Othello feel a certain way
O: ‘If thou dost love me…

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O: ‘If thou dost love me show me thy thought’
I: ‘My lord, you know I love you’

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Desdemona’s agency used for and against her loyalty a3s3
O: ‘For she had eyes and ____ me’
I: ‘she did deceive her ___ marrying you’
I: ‘To seal her father’s …

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O: ‘For she had eyes and chose me’
I: ‘she did deceive her father marrying you’
I: To seel her father’s eyes up, close as oak’

28
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Othello’s soliloquy a3s3 which is the peripeteia of choosing to listen to I not D
Falconry imagery
‘Though that her jesses were…

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‘Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I’d whistle her off and let her down the wind to prey at fortune’
O still loves D but would still cast her away if she were unfaithful

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Othello’s hamartia in believing I soliloquy a3s3
‘This fellow’s of exceeding ____ and…

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‘This fellow’s of exceeding honesty and knows all qualities, with a learned spirit’

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Othello’s soliloquy a3s3 which is the peripeteia of choosing to listen to I not D
Othello’s insecurities
‘haply for I am black….

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‘Haply for I am black and have not those soft parts of conversation that chamberers have, or for I am declined into the vale of years’

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Othello’s soliloquy a3s3 which is the peripeteia of choosing to listen to I not D
marriage and motif of appetite
‘O curse of marriage that we can call these ____ creatures ours…

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‘O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites’

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Othello is upset with Desdemona a3s3
‘Her name, that was as fresh as ____, it is now…

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‘Her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face. ‘

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Othello’s transformation to villain a3s3
‘I’ll tear her….

‘Damn her, lewd____

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‘I’ll tear her all to pieces’
‘Damn her lewd minx’

34
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Desdemona and Emilia talk about the handkerchief
D: ‘Where should I lose that handkerchief, Emilia?’
E: I _____ madam
D: my noble moor is true of mind, and …..

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‘I know not madam’
‘My noble moor is true of mind, and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are’

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Emilia as wise a3s4
‘(Men) are all but stomachs, and we all but ____

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‘(Men) are all but stomachs, and we all but food: They eat us hungerly, and when they are full they belch us’

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Cassio’s pressure on Desdemona a3s4
‘Exist, and be a member of his love whom I…

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‘Exist, and be a member of his love whom I, with all the office of my heart entirely honour’

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Desdemona realising O’s change
‘My lord is not… a3s4

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My lord is not my lord

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Emilia echoes Iago a3s4
‘But jealous souls will not be answered so…

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‘But jealous souls will not be answered so: They are not ever jealous for the couse but jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster begot upon itself, born on itself’

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Exclamatives from Othello
a4s1 ‘Lie with her? lie on her?…

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‘Lie with her? lie on her? We say lie on her when they belie her! Lie with her, zounds that’s fulsome! Handkerchief! confessions! handkerchief!’

40
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What os the significance of Othello when ‘He falls in a trance.’ in a4s1?

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Shows the degradation of his mind to the point where he is powerlessness to his feelings

41
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Cassio’s degradation of Bianca a4s1

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‘this is the monkey’s own giving out’
‘she haunts me in every place’
‘so hangs and lolls and weeps upon me’

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Othello’s conflict of love and hate with Desdemona A4S1 PROSE
‘ay let her rot and perish…
‘my heart is turned to …’
‘o the world hath not a ____ creature’
‘I will ___ her into messes….

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‘Ay let her rot and perish and be damned’
‘my heart is turned to stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand’
‘O the world hath not a sweeter creature’
‘I will chop her to messes. Cuckold me!’

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Emilia defending D religious imagery a4s2
‘lay down my ___ at stake’
‘let heaven requite it with the _____ curse for if she be not…

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‘lay down my soul at stake’
‘let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse,for if she be not honest, chaste and true there’s no man happy’

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Othello calling D a whore a4s2
‘This is a subtle whore, a ___, lock and key…

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‘This is a subtle whore, a closet, lock and key, of villainous secrets’

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Emilia as mouthpiece for audiece a4s2
‘hath she forsook so many noble matches…

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‘hath she forsook so many noble matches, her father, and her country, and her friends to be called whore? would it not make one weep?

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Desdemona as frustratingly passive a4s2
‘It is my ___ fortune’

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‘it is my wretched fortune’

47
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When is Iago presented as Machiavellian in Act 5?

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When he ‘stabs Roderigo’ in secret, this shows how quick he is to abandon loyalty when there is the opportunity to promote himself

48
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Treatment of Bianca a5s1
‘O fie upon thee, ____
‘I do suspect this trash to be a…

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‘O fie upon thee, strumpet!’ (Emilia)
‘I do suspect this trash to be a party in this injury’ (Iago)

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Saintly imagery to describe Desdemona a5s2
‘you ___ stars’
‘I’ll not…scar that …

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‘you chaste stars’
‘I’ll not…scar that whiter skin of hers than snow

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Emilia’s exclamatives a5s2
‘You told a lie, a ____ lie!’
‘Nay lay thee down and roar for thou…

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‘You told a lie, an odious, damned lie!’
Nay lay thee down and roar for thou hast killed the sweetest innocent that e’er did lift up eye’

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Othello’s self loathing torture imagery a5s2
‘roast me in ___, wash me in…
‘ I took by the throat the circumcised …

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‘roast me in sulphur, wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!’
‘I took by the throat the circumcised dog and smote him-thus!’

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Othello removing himself from blame a5s2
‘An honourable murderer, if you will…
‘Speak of one that loved…

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‘An honourable murderer, if you will For nought I did in hate, but all in honour’
‘Speak of one that loved not wisely, but too well’

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Cassio’s gallant reputation
“ a ____ arithmetician…

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“a great arithmetician… a Florentine… That never set a squadron in the field”
* Florence was associated with intellect and progress
* Iago doesn’t believe Cassio isn’t fit for war because he is a man of logic and strategy, not action

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Cassio as easily manipulated
‘They have given me a ____ already”
‘Let me go, sir; or I’lll….

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“They have given me a rouse already”
“Let me go, sir; or I’ll knock you o’er the mazzard”

55
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Cassio as gallant
‘____ to thee,lady”
‘I may again exist and be a member…

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‘Hail to thee, lady”
“I may again/ Exist and be a member of his love/ Whom I, with all the office of my heart entirely honour”

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Cassio’s duplicitous nature
Calls Bianca his ‘___ love’
but she ‘hangs and lolls and…
‘____ me in every place’

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‘sweet love
‘hangs and lolls and weeps upon me’
‘haunts me in every place’

57
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Cassio’s cowardice that takes advantage of Desdemona

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‘solicitor’
‘I pray you pardon me, I cannot speak’

58
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Emilia as the jaded housewife
‘you shall not ___ my praise’
‘I nothing to ____ his fantasy’

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‘you shall not write my praise’
‘I nothing to please his fantasy’

59
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Emilia
‘It is their husbands fault if wives…

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“It is their husbands’ fault if wives do fall. The ills we do, their ills instruct us so”

60
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Emilia as a martyr
‘The Moor hath…
‘So speaking as I think…
‘Lay me by…

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“The Moor hath killed my mistress”
“So speaking as I think, I die, I die”
“Lay me by my mistress’ side”

A Level English Lit Paper 1-Othello REDO INTO SCENES (8 decks)

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