characters Flashcards
Othello - beginning
Loving/trusting
- ‘I love the gentle Desdemona’
- ‘My life upon her faith’
- ‘Let her speak’
- ‘I will deny thee nothing’
Composed
- ‘Let him do his spite’
- ‘Potent, grave, revered signors’
- ‘My services […] out-tongue his complaints’
- ‘Keep up your bright swords for the dew will rust them’
- ‘My parts, my title, and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly’
Othello - middle
Doubting
- ‘I do not think but Desdemona’s honest’
- ‘O curse of marriage’
- Why did I marry?’
Insecure
- ‘Haply for I am black’
- ‘Into the vale of years’
Aggressive
- ‘Devil! [strikes her]’
- ‘Zounds!’
Othello - end
Defeated/ruined
- ‘O Desdemon! Dead Desdemon!’
- ‘O! O!’
- ‘That’s he who was Othello, here I am’
- ‘Tis happiness to die’
Misogynistic
- ‘This is a subtle whore’
- ‘She is a simple bawd’
Emilia - beginning
Submissive
- ‘She has no speech’
- ‘I nothing but to please his fantasies’
- ‘My husband has a hundred times woo’d me to steal it’
Emilia - middle
Opinionated
- ‘They are but stomachs and we but food’
Protective
- ‘Lay down my soul at stake’
- ‘Let she not be honest, chaste and true there’s no man happy’
Emilia - end
Advocating
- ‘Let the husbands know the wives have sense’
- ‘I do think it is the husband’s fault if the wives do fall’
- ‘Let them use us well’
Outspoken
- ‘I will speak as liberally as the north’
- ‘I am bound to speak’
- ‘It is proper to obey him, but not now’
Desdemona - beginning
Composed/eloquent
- ‘Most gracious Duke’
- ‘My noble father’
- ‘I do here perceive a divided duty’
Assertive
- ‘Let me go with him’
- ‘What wouldst thou write of me?’
Protective
- ‘Alas, she has no speech’
- ‘O fie upon thee, slanderer!’
Desdemona - middle
Persistent
- ‘Good love call him back’
- ‘Talk him out of patience’
- ‘I’ll perform to the last article’
Submissive
- ‘Men are not Gods’
- ‘I have suborned the witness’
- ‘I have not deserv’d this’
- ‘I will not stay to offend you’
Desdemona - end
Passive
- ‘I will my Lord’
- ‘His unkindness may defeat my life, but never take my love’
- ‘We must not now displease him’
Submissive
- ‘Nobody, I myself’
- ‘Commend me to my kind lord’
- ‘Tis meet I should be used this way’
- ‘If there be heaven, pardon him’
Iago - manipulative/sadistic
- ‘I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear’
- ‘the moor already changes with my poison’
- ‘I put Othello to the torture’
- ‘I like not that’
- ‘Honest, my lord?’
- ‘My Lord, you know I love you’
Iago - misogynistic/racist
- ‘You rise to play, and go to bed to work’
- ‘Would she give you so much of her lips as her tongue bestows me, you would have enough’
- ‘I find it still when I have list to sleep’
- ‘twixt my sheets he has done my office’
- ‘barbary horse’
Iago - dishonest/two faced
- ‘Honest Iago’
- ‘By Janus’
- ‘I am not what I am’
- ‘O brave Iago, honest and just, that has such a noble sense of friend’s wrongs’
Cassio - starts off clever with good repuation
- ‘Valiant Cassio’
- ‘a great arithmetician’
- ‘I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking’
- ‘As friendly as you were’
Cassio - through Iago loses reputation
- ‘damned in a fair wife’ (foreshadowing)
- ‘The gallants desire it’
- ‘I pray you pardon me, I cannot speak’
- ‘I have lost the immortal part of myself’
- ‘Reputation, reputation, reputation!’
- ‘What remains is bestial’
Cassio - shows his value of reputation through treatment of women
- Comparison between treatment of Desdemona and Bianca
- ‘T’is my breeding that gives me this bold show of courtesy’
- ‘[kisses Emilia]’
- ‘She is a most exquisite lady’ (Desdemona)
- ‘I am much bound to you’ (Emilia)
- ‘Virtuous Desdemona’
- ‘Marry her? What! A customer!’
