Iago Flashcards
iago’s racial imagery
“Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.”
“A frail vow betwixt an erring Barbarian and a super-subtle Venetian.”
“Barbary Horse”
“The thicklips”
iago’s misogynistic side
“You are pictures out of doors.. wildcats in your kitchens… housewives in your beds!”
“You are a fool, go to.”
“Good wench”
“Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags!”
iago’s manipulative words
“Come, be a man! Drown thyself? Drown cats, and blind puppies!”
“Put money in thy purse (X5)”
“I had rather cut this tongue from my mouth than it should do offence to Michael Cassio.”
“Ha, I like not that.”
“I cannot think that he would steal away so guilty-like seeing you coming.”
“O beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
“Sweet Desdemona, let us be wary, let us hide our loves” (talking from Cassio perspective)
“Such a handkerchief, I am sure it was your wife’s, did I see Cassio wipe his beard with.”
“Come hither” (imperatives used to assert himself)
iago showing his manipulative side
“Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago. In following him, I follow but myself.”
“I am not what I am.”
“By Janus!”
“With as little a web as this I shall ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.”
“O murderous slave! O villain [stabs Roderigo]”
Iago showing his motivations
“It is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets he’s done my office.”
“If thou canst cuckold him, thou dost thyslef a pleasure, myself a sport.”
What does Honigmann think of Iago’s interactions with the audience?
“we may come close to sympathising with the villain because he confides in us, so we watch the plot unfolding from his point of view.”
“Iago is the chief humourist”
“Iago is the matador, and the creator of much of the plot.”
