Controlling Love Theme Flashcards
“His unkindness….
May defeat my life but never taint my love.”
-desdemona
-heightens tragedy, as her love for him was innocent and pure.
“I took by…
Th’throat the circumcised dog and smote him thus.” kills himself
Othello
- inner conflict
- kills Turks then kills himself, he has become the Muslim enemy that kills the good Christians (desdemona)
- loss of his love has lead to his loss of civility
“But that I…
Love the gentle desdemona I would not want my unhoused free condition put into circumscription and confine for the sea’s worth.”
- othello
- O believes his love for desdemona is so great that nothing (not even the sea) and contain it. This love becomes chaotic and too wild, driving othello into a passionate rage so great he kills the thing he loves most.
“Not I,…
I must be found. My parts, my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly.” -othello
-“my title” = the entitlement that come from being desdemona’s husband. Suggest she has power not just over him, but over others also.”
🔴 “the buckles…
On his breast renages all tember and is become the bellows and the fan to cool a gipsy’s lust.” -philo
- audience made aware of Antony’s place in relationship straight away
- Antony is the submissive personality, and is stimulation and satisfaction for cleopatra, just as bellows and fans are.r
🔴 “ “you did know….
How much you were my conqueror, and that my sword, made weak by my affection, would obey it on all cause.”
- “sword” pre presents masculinity and strength and his respect/reputation as a Roman soldier, which cleopatra a love dissolved.
- lost the war to Cesar, and the war to cleopatra
🔴 “the triple…
pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet’s fool.” -Philo
- as one of the triumvirate, Antony considered God-like, almost untouchable Roman warrior. To see him in such a human position, in love, is unsettling for his men.
- because he was built up so highly in the Roman military it makes his downfall even more tragic.
Perdition catch….
My souls, but I do love thee: and when I love thee not, chaos is come again.
-othello
