Desdemona Flashcards

1
Q

Desdemona stands up to her father

A

‘so much duty as my mother show’d to you, preferring you before her father’

1.3

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2
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Desdemona encourages Iago’s bravado

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‘what wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst praise me?’

2.1

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3
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Desdemona plans to persist with Cassio’s case

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‘I’ll intermingle everything he does with Cassio’s suit’

3.3

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4
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Desdemona detects Othello’s change in language

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‘why do you speak so startingly and rash?’

3.4

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5
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Desdemona aggravates the Cassio situation and believes Othello is distracting her

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‘This is a trick to put me from my suit’

3.4

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6
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Desdemona realises it is wrong to idolise men

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‘nay, we must think men are not Gods’

3.4

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7
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Desdemona realises she is worth more

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‘I have not deserved this’

4.1

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8
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Desdemona insists she is loyal

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‘Your wife, my lord; your true and loyal wife’

4.2

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9
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wedding sheets

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‘Lay on my bed my wedding sheets’

4.2

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10
Q

Desdemona declares that she will always love Othello

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‘his unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love’

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11
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Desdemona’s instructions to Emilia should she die

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‘If I do die before thee prithee, shroud me in one of those same sheets’

4.3

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12
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Barbary horse lady

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‘But to go hang my head all at one side, and sing it like poor Barbary’

4.3

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13
Q

Lodovico as Othello’s character foil

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‘This Lodovico is a proper man’

4.3

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14
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Desdemona asks Emilia if there are women who are unfaithful

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‘Tell me, Emilia,- that there be women do abuse their husbands in such gross kind’

4.3

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15
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Desdemona begs for her life

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‘O, banish me, my lord, but kill me not!’

5.2

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16
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Desdemona begs more one more night of life

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‘Kill me to-morrow: let me live to-night!’

5.2

17
Q

Desdemona begs for more time

A

‘But half an hour!’

5.2

18
Q

Desdemona pleads a final time

A

‘But while I say one prayer!’

5.2

19
Q

Desdemona dies and maintains her innocence

A

‘A guiltless death I die’

5.2

20
Q

Desdemona’s final line

A

‘Nobody; I myself. Farewell’

5.2