Honour and loyalty vs betrayal and mistrust Flashcards

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Desdemona’s loyalty to Othello till the end.

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1) “Nobody - I myself- farewell. Commend me to my kind lord” (Ao5 So2) (Doomed innocent, even in death she does not blame Othello)
2) “And his unkindness may defeat my life / But never taint my love.” (Ao4 So2)
3) “Not the world’s mass of vanity could make me” (Ao4 So2)
4) “A guiltless death I die” (Ao5 So2)

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Othello losing his loyalty of his honorable values.

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1) “Not only take away, but let your sentence even fall upon my life” (Ao1 So3)
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1) “And you the blacker devil!” (Ao5 So2) (Emilia)
2) “Thou art a devil” (Ao5 So2) (Emilia)
3) “Thou rash as fire” (Ao5 So2) (Emilia)
4) “Is there division ‘twixt my lord and Cassio?” (Ao4 So1) (Lodovico) (oblivious)
5) “With this little arm and this good sword, I have made my way through more impediments than twenty times your stop” (Ao5 So2)

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Othello’s trust for Desdemona becoming debased and him betraying her.

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1) “O my souls joy!” (Ao2 So1)
2) “For she had eyes and chose me” - Othello A3S3
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1) “She was false as water / Thou art rash as fire” (Ao5 So2)
2) “A horned man’s a monster and a beast” (Ao4 So1) (Reference to the cuckolds that men who were cheated on were said to have. “Beast” is a reference to an animal, showing how love and loyalty has turned to hate and lust)
3) “I’ll tear her to pieces” - (A3S3 Othello)
4) “Young sweating devil” (Ao3 So4)
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5) “Twould make her amiable, and subdue my father entirely to her love” (Ao3 So4)
6) “I will in Cassio’s lodging lose this napkin and let him find it” (Ao3 So3)

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