emilia Flashcards
A2S1 Emilia’s introduction with Iago
“You shall not write my praise.”
iago says she talks “too much” and is “foolish”
A2S1 Desdemona to Emilia
“Do not learn of him Emilia, though he be thy husband”
A3S3 Emilia steals the handkerchief for Iago
“My wayward husband hath a hundred times wooed me to steal it.”
She doesnt know why, but still says she is:
“I nothing but to please his fantasy”
Her support of Desdemona and view of jealousy
“Is he not jealous?”
“But jealous for they are jealous: ‘tis a monster begot upon itself, born on itself”
Emilia’s cynicism about husbands
“they are all but stomachs, and we all but food, they eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they belch us”
“I do think it is their husbands faults if wives do fall.” if they “slack their duties” “or say they strike us”
her proto feminist views about inequalities in the patriarchy
“have we not affections, desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?”
her defence of desdemona and bravery in exposing her murder
“o the more angel she, and you the blacker devil”
“thou art a devil”
“villainy hath made mocks with love”
“Ay, Ay: O lay me by my mistress’ side”
speaking out against iago
“I shall not charm my tongue, I am bound to speak”
“tis proper I obey him, but not now”
“I will speak as liberal as the north
