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2:1 Iago kisses Emelia then insults her

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“He kisses EMILIA”
“her tongue she oft bestows on me
You’d have enough.”
- Iago’s misogynistic, perhaps lewd (tongue for kissing and nagging) comments suggest his wife talks too much: a common complaint about women
- D challenges him

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2:1 Iago gives a stereotypical view of women:
what does he say about housewives and other comments

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“Players in your housewifery, and housewives in…
Your beds!” - implies women don’t take housework seriously but work hard in bed; ellipsis

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2:1 What does Iago say women could do if they were both smart and pretty? later says women only capable of small things: what?

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“If she be fair and wise … The one’s for use, the other useth it.”
- veiled misogyny: a wise and beautiful woman can use her wisdom to make use of her beauty; poetic yet claims he is not; later claims all women the same
“To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer” - insignificant things; objectifies; only look after children

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2:1 Iago explains his plans to trap cassio

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“With as little a web as this will I ensnare as
great a fly as Cassio.”tricks … strip you out of your lieutenantry”
- sees Cassio as his superior and inferior: fly = idiot
- speaks in prose: less noble

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2:1 Iago’s aside uses musical metaphor to explain how he will trick D+O

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“O, you are well tuned now: but I’ll set down
The pegs that make this music, as honest
As I am.”
- ironic; Iago twists musical metaphor

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2:1: talking to roderigo says D will become bored of O and go for Cassio instead + criticises O

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“what violence she first loved the Moor,
but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies”
“and what delight
shall she have to look on the devil? When the blood is made dull with the act of sport”
- passion, sex, desire will leave; criticises Othello’s boastful nature

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2:1 talking to Rodrigo how does he describe Cassio

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“a slipper and subtle knave, a finder out of occasions” “though
true advantage never present itself - a devilish knave”
- ironic because this describes himself

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2:1 What does Iago tell Rodrigo to do?

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“by the displanting of Cassio. So shall you have a shorter journey to your desires”
“impediment most profitably removed”
- Abstract concepts show how Iago hides his true intentions.
-it’s clear Iago is the puppeteer: he’s made sure Roderigo works up with Cassio so he can start a fight

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2:1 Rodrigo leaves: Iago Soliloquy: How does he describe Othello and O+D’s love?

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“of a constant, loving, noble nature” - there love is natural and believable: truth about O

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2:1 Rodrigo leaves: Iago Soliloquy: Iago describes his motive

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“diet my revenge”
“I do suspect the lusty Moor
Hath leaped into my seat” - another motive

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2:1 Rodrigo leaves: Iago Soliloquy: Iago describes his desire for revenge and jealousy

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Jealousy: “Doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards…
And nothing can or shall content my soul
Till I am evened with him, wife for wife…”
or “I put the Moor
At least into a jealousy so strong
That judgement cannot cure”
- rhyme; eerie

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2:1 Rodrigo leaves: Iago Soliloquy: describes his plan for Rodirigo and Cassio (“poor trash of Venice” accuse Roderigo of immoral actions) - benefits for him/ rhyme - wickedness can’t be revealed yet

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“Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me”
“yet confused
Knavery’s plain face is never seen, till used.” - rhyme; plan afoot but can’t yet be seen

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2:3 Iago and Cassio drinking: Cassio exits: has a soliloquy about trying to get Cassio to drink more:

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“If I can fasten but one cup upon him …
He’ll be as full of quarrel and offense”

  • Iago has ensured that chaos will ensue as a result of drunkenness
  • Machiavellian plotting
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2:3 Iago compares his plans to a smooth passage + makes cassio drink

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“If consequence do but approve my dream
My boat sails freely”
“Some wine, ho!” (sings) “And let me the cannikin clink, clink” “let a soldier drink!”
- further ref to smooth passage / lack of obstacles for Iago; contrast to storm for O

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2:3 Iago tells montano Casso drinks most nights and he wants to help him

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“’Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep”
“I do love Cassio well, and would do much

A cry within: ‘Help! help!”

To cure him of this evil” - ironic; easy at lying; the placement of the line creates further irony

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2:3 Iago tells Rodrigo to go after cassio + later after the fight to tell everyone

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aside “How now, Roderigo?
I pray you, after the lieutenant, go!”
- creating chaos; manipulating but keeping hands clean
“Away, I say, go out and cry a mutiny.” - manipulation

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2:3 Iago says he doesn’t want to say bad things about a friend when Othello and Montano questioning him about cassio’s drunk incident: heavy irony

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“I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth
Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio”
- irony
- iago has a massive speech + defends cassio
- “But men are men, the best sometimes forget”

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2:3 Iago asking Cassio if he is alright; what does he say about reputation

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“Reputation is an idle and
most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.” - what he thinks about cassio
“there are ways to recover the general again”
later: “I think you think I love you” - “think” - duplicitous but cassio don’t notice

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2:3 Iago manipulates Cassio into appealing to Desdemona to recover his postion

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“Our general’s wife is now the general:”
- Desdemona has Othello’s ear / is in control.
“Confess yourself freely to her”

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2:3 Iago manipulates Cassio into appealing to Desdemona to recover his postion: How does he describe Desdemona

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“She is of so free, so kind, so apt” - shes too trusting + kind not to help

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2:3 Iago said he helped cassio out of…

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“of love and honest
kindness.”

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2:3 even trys to manipulate the audience after he convinces Cassio to go to D to help him

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“When this advice is free I give and honest”
“How am I then a villain”
“Divinity of hell!” - oxymoron; aware of his evil
- rhetorical qs: challenges audience to call him a villain; reference to hell

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2:3 compares his advice to Cassio with poison + what will become of it for D + reference to entrapment

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“I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear:” - plosives emphasise vitriol
“undo her credit with the Moor”, “turn her virtue into pitch” - blacken her reputation
“make the net That shall enmesh them all.” - again reference to entrapment

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2:3 Roderigo enter’s again after Cassio drama: Roderigo isn’t happy with result Iago tells him to be patient

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“Thou know’st we work by wit and not by witchcraft, And wit depends on dilatory time.”
- manipulates him into staying; cassio dismissed; they will reap rewards

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2:3 End of Scene: references next part of his plan to get Emelia involved + himself manipulate the Moor: what does he finish with?

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“Moor” “may Cassio find Soliciting his wife: ay, that’s the way!
Dull not device by coldness and delay!”
- will control; again rhyme; everything going right for Iago

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3:1 - How is Iago described by cassio?

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  • “I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest”
  • Machiavelli was a Florentine and hence they were reknowned for their cunning, not honesty.
  • ironic
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3:3 Desdemona and Cassio r talking - he exits whilst Iago and othello (apparently) enter - what does he say

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“Exit CASSIO” - AO2 allows Iago to exploit Othello’s jealous nature.
“Ha! I like not that”
…
“I cannot think it
That he would steal away so guilty-like”
- Iago’s vagueness in using the determiner ‘that’, forces O to question I. Language full of negatives and conditionals -undermines Os sense of security. I uses his language to establish power over O behaviour
- ‘steal’ and ‘guilty’ are used cleverly here to imply wrongdoing on Cassio’s behalf

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3:3 - Dynamic between O and I: Iago expressing concerns about cassio but not out-rightly; teasing O

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  • I forced O to ask him Qs
    O “What dost thou say, Iago?”
    I: “Did Michael Cassio, when you wooed my lady, / Know of your love?”
  • “for a satisfaction of my thought” - I
  • “Why of thy thought” - O
  • Iago teases O by using the word ‘thought’ instead of know/knowledge, which rests on fact.
  • Othello often seeks factual proof
  • He has few soliloquies compared to Iago and is not so articulate in them. Perhaps in his status as an outsider he relies on I to interpret what he cannot
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3:3 Evidence of Othello echoing Iago

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“Indeed?”
“Indeed?”
“Honest, my lord?”
“Honest, ay honest”
- Iago has O repeating his keywords, leading him to conclusion of D cheating

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3:3 Othello gets frustrated “some monster in thy thought to hideous to be shown” “show me thy thought” - what does Iago respond about love?

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  • “My lord, you know I love you.”
  • this biblical reference is to the betrayal of Jesus by his disciple Peter.
  • O thinks he does; ironic
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3:3 Othello says “give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.” - he can tell Iago is hiding something: What does Iago respond?

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“I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.
Utter my thoughts?”
- I makes a point that thought is free. This is tantalising for Othello, that he cannot force Iago
- ref to slavery; O was slave
- link to 5:2

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3:3 Iago literally admits that he has a tendency to look for wrongdoing sometimes wrongdoing that isn’t there when O presses him for more info

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“it is my nature’s plague
To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not”
- Here Iago defines jealousy as an emotion that sees faults that are not there.
- ‘spy’ is a suitable image for Iago - he often watches and waits in corners

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3:3 Iago admits that it would be stupid for Othello to listen to him

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“for your quiet nor your good,
… / To let you know my thoughts.”
- Iago implies his thoughts will destroy all of these qualities!

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3:3 What metaphor does Iago use for reputation?

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“Good name … Is the immediate jewel of their souls.”
“He who steals my purse steals trash.”
- reputation more valuable than possessions
- opposite of views to Cassio
- The imagery of pick-pocketing suits Iago well

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3:3 famous jealousy quote

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“Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.” - metaphor enhanced by previous mention of monsters

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3:3 Iago’s reference to tribe

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“Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!”
- why tribe? Is Iago, as with the reference to slavery, speaking in a way he thinks will connect to Othello’s cultural heritage?
(after O gives speech on how shes not unfaithful “sings, plays and dances”)

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3:3 Iago tells Othello to keep an eye on Desdemona

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“Look to your wife, observe her well with Cassio.”
“Wear your eyes thus, not jealous nor secure.” - keep open mind; suggests matter hangs in balance
- structurally approaching climax of rising action

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3:3 Iago says he knows venice well

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“I know our country disposition well.
In Venice they do let God see the pranks
They dare not show their husbands.”
- Iago relies here on Othello’s trust in his superior cultural understanding as a native Italian
- he image of Venetian women as being sexually unfaithful, perhaps because of the city’s reputation for prostitution

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3:3 Iago says how Desdemona deceived her father so might deceive him

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“She did deceive her father, marrying you”
“so young … To seel her father’s eyes up … He thought ’twas witchcraft.”
- he gives two example of her deception
- Her deception of B and the ref to witchcraft is emphasising the extent of her cunning!
- social rules prevented her from acting openly (oh says bound to thee forever)

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3:3 Iago tells Othello he told him all this out of love

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“I hope you will consider what is spoke
Comes from my love.”
- Iago’s cleverness is to make it seems that he has done this out of love

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3:3 “I do not think but D honest” Iago’s responce?

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“Long live she so. And long live you to think so.”
- foreshadows ending? There is a fatalistic tone here
“And yet how nature, erring from itself-“

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3:3 “And yet how nature, erring from itself”
- how did Iago exploit this?

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“Not to affect many proposèd matches
Of her own clime, complexion, and degree”
- Iago continues the idea of an unnatural marriage against the social order; O= outsider
“Her will, recoiling to her better judgment” - will be repulsed and regret marraige

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3:3 what does Iago tell Othello specifically to look out for: linking to his plan

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“Note if your lady strain his entertainment
With any strong or vehement importunity.”
- what he asked cassio to ask D to do; trap set

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3:3 after manipulating Othello: Iago is with Emilia: key moment; What does Iago respond to Emilia; she echoes him

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Emilia gives Iago the handkerchief
- “I have a thing for you”
- “A thing for me? It is a common thing—”
- more rude and misogynistic comments
I: “What handkerchief?”
I: “What handkerchief?”

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3:3 Iago has the handkerchief: plan is working for him: soliloquy

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“Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations”
“The Moor already changes with my poison.
“natures poisons … with a little act upon the blood Burn like the mines of sulfur.”
- highlights thie ridiculous nature of jealousy
- repetition of poison suggests the insidious nature of suspicion to grow and to harm. ‘blood’ brings up the idea of passion; ‘sulphur’: hell.

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3:3 Iago says how othello will not rest easy again

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“Not poppy nor mandragora
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou owedst yesterday.”
- beautifully constructed line and its calming images and sibiliance, contrast to Othello’s jerky and uneven line on his entrance - a reversal of the norm re servant and master.

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3:3 Othello gets aggressive with Iago: “Be sure thou prove my love a whore” - Iago’s responce

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“Are you a man? Have you a soul or sense?
… O wretched fool That lov’st to make thine honesty a vice!”
- he immediately questions his humanity, as if he were an animal
He lament is that this is the payment you get for being honest - highly ironic and almost comedic
- O: “Nay, Stay”
- I: “for honesty’s a fool” - what he actually thinks

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3:3 Iago puts images in Othello’s mind of D and C

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“Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on,
Behold her topped?”
O: “Death and damnation! Oh!
- His logical suggestion of what the proof might be - to watch them - is still shocking. It does also link with the idea of watching/spying

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3:3 evidence of Iago scheming

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he says how D and C will try to hide and keep affair secret
“What then? How then?
What shall I say? Where’s satisfaction?”
- qs demonstrate improvisation

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3:3 Iago’s reference to animals

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“prime as goats, as hot as monkeys”
- later O echoes this; to provoke O’s jealousy
- tells him he would be satisfied with “strong circumstances” which lead him to the “truth”

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3:3 Iago tells O that he heard Cassio talk about D in sleep

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“In sleep I heard him say “Sweet Desdemona,
Let us be wary, let us hide our loves.” … and then kiss me hard” - thinking I is D; comic
- idea that truth of evil soul come out in sleep
- imagery to make jealous
- O responds: “Oh monstrous! monstrous!”
- builds up on shaky proofs

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3:3 Iago asks O about handkerchief

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“Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief Spotted with strawberries in your wife’s hand?”
“today See Cassio wipe his beard with.
- trump card; strawberries are a popular Elizabethan embroidery motif.
- emblematic of Desdemona’s deceitful beauty
- shows of goodness by which O is betrayed and the corrupt justice he believes to possess.
- could represent goodness growing among snakes in the grass too.
- links to Iago’s metaphor of the body as a garden too. ( see Ross in JSTOR)

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3:3 Othello kneels? Scene ends with Iago saying

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Iago kneels too
“Iago doth give up
The execution of his wit, hands, heart,
To wronged Othello’s service.”
- Iago joins him but does not vow to god but to the stars - fitting as he is in opposition to god/goodness.
- similar to marriage pledge
- then O says how wants cassio dead: iago “but let her live”
“I am your own for ever” - homosexual love?

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what happens in 3:4

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Iago pretends to be confused about Othello being angry at D
“is he angry?”

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4:1 I and O: similar to 3:3 but these seen about …

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Iago concoct the “proof” of D’s infedelity

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4:1 echo thing now?

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“Will you think so?”
“Think so, Iago?”
- now O echoes I as if he can’t think for himself

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4:1 Iago putting intimate pictures of D and C in O’s head

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“To kiss in private?”
“Or to be naked with her friend in bed”
“So they do nothing, ’tis a venial slip.
But if I give my wife a handkerchief—”
- O: “What then?” - looking to I for answers

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3:3 Iago drip feeds accusation prior to Othello’s breakdown (hasn’t even seen proof yet!!!!)

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I: ““Why, that he did—I know not what he did.”
O: “What? what?”
I: “Lie—”
O: “With her?”
I: “With her, on her, what you will.”
- O’s breakdown

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4:1 after Othello’s breakdown Iago talks about his medicine; aside

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“Work on, My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
- ironic use of medicine fulfils the previous imagery of poison, and ‘caught’ suggests the ‘web’ and ‘gyve’: mentioned earlier
“And many worthy and chaste dames even thus, All guiltless, meet reproach.—”
- deliberate malice and misogyny

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4:1 O returns from fainting: I says every man has been cheated on

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“Think every bearded fellow that’s but yoked May draw with you.”
- RE marriage; misogyny

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4:1 Iago tells O to basically wait in the shadows for Iago to talk to Cassio

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“Stand you awhile apart”
“For I will make him tell the tale anew”
- A frequent dramatic device
- remarks will be about something else; irony of “ocular proof”

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4:1 How Iago describes the way cassio talks of Bianca?

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“when he hears of her, cannot refrain
From the excess of laughter”
- mocks her?

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4:1 Iago + Cassio: Iago says something about Desdemona then…

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“Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on ’t.” [speaking lower]
- Othello only heard this bit
O: “look how he laughs already!”
I: “I never knew woman love man so”

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4:1 after Cassio exits Othello comes back and its just O and I what does O say
later I to egg him on?

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“[advancing] How shall I murder him, Iago?
“see how he prizes the
foolish woman your wife! She gave it him, and he hath given it his whore.”
- further insult with this idea

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4:1 Iago tells him how to kill Desdemona + C

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“Do it not with poison. Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated.”
- poetic justice
“And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker.”
- interesting euphemism for killing Cassio

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4:1 Iago foreshadows Othello’s murder when talking to Lodovico
- I takes no responsibility or innitiative

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“Yet would I knew
That stroke would prove the worst!”
- provoking and foreboding
“You shall observe him,
And his own courses will denote him so
That I may save my speech.”
- Iago suggests a character become a watcher - motif of sight ?
Lodovico uses the words deceived in him - theme of deception and betrayal again.

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4:2 Iago and Desdemona; “tis meet …”
Iago pretends to be sympathetic

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“Do not weep, do not weep. Alas the day!”
“Beshrew him for ’t!
How comes this trick upon him?”
- convincingly sympathetic - dramatic irony again

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4:2 Emelia says there must be some villain causing this: Iago’s responce?

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“Fie, there is no such man. It is impossible.”
- ot a man but a devil?
- Or is this Iago’s pride in his cunning - no man is as good as him.

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4:2 Iago’s mistreatment of E

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“speak within door” “Your are a fool. Go to”
- tries to control her - many examples of this in the following scenes

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4:2 Desdemona has a long speech upset: “unkindness may defeat my life”: what does I say to calm her down?

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“I pray you, be content, ’tis but his humor.”
“All things shall be well”
- false reassurance for D, but Iago thinks his plans shall be well.
- He tries to brush off her fears.

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4:2 Rodrigo comes in pissed off I allows him to explain how does he try and win him back?

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“Why, now I see there’s mettle in thee … a better opinion than ever”
- he flatters R, complimenting his strength or ‘mettle’ to try to win him back, referring in the next speech to R’s ‘wit and judgement’

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4:2 Iago basically says you can kill me if I don’t get D to spend night with you

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“If thou the next night
following enjoy not Desdemona, take me from this world” - kill me
- extreme promise he’s not gonna keep

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4:2 Persuading R to kill C

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  • O and D leaving unless something stops them
    e.g “the removing of Cassio.”
  • a clever plan
  • audience knows O to return to venice
  • “I will show you such a necessity in his death that you shall think yourself bound to put it on him.”
  • another lie as proof
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5:1 scene starts set

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Enter Iago and Roderigo
- a pacy start mid-conversation, an external scene at nigh

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5:1 Iago hiding and giving R orders

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“Quick, quick! Fear nothing. I’ll be at thy elbow. It makes us, or it mars us.”
- urgency in Iago’s repeated exclamation reveals the importance of this moment for him (makes or mars us)
- plotting has been leading up to this moment
- parallels the scene in 2:1 where the provocation of Cassio is set up (comedy to tragedy? sacking to death)

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5:1 I promises to be by R’s side as he does the deed - rhyme

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“Here, at thy hand. Be bold, and take thy stand.”
- evil intent behind Iago’s promises to stand by R. The internal rhyme in this line adds further pace

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5:1 Iago’s aside after R about to kill Cassio: about how he don’t care if he lives or dies

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whoever died “Every way makes my gain.”
- if either stays alive this will effect I negatively: R “grows angry” and C “hath a daily beauty in his life That makes me ugly.”
- they “must die” essentially
- Iago’s jealousy apparent

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5:1 Iago kills Roderigo

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“O murd’rous slave! O villain!” “Stabs RODERIGO” - irony
Roderigo’s responce: “O damned Iago! O inhuman dog!”
- too far away for L and G to hear

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5:1 Iago loves to create uproar and chaos

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“Ho! murder! murder!”
- Iago loves to create uproar and chaos - always a catalyst for disorder

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5:1 Irony: Iago is the one who tends to Cassio

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“I’ll bind it with my shirt.”
- the wound he inflicted - now he administers first aid!

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5:1 Iago tries to blame it on Bianca

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“I do suspect this trash
To be a party in this injury.—”
- ever quick-thinking, he begins to blame Bianca
- opportunist
“Nay, guiltiness
Will speak, though tongues were out of use.”
- this echoes his commands to Othello to look at Desdemona and see her guilt in her physical reactions, rather than listen to her words “is the fruits of whoring”

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5:1 scene ends with idea that its gonna make or break Iago

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“This is the night
That either makes me or fordoes me quite.”
- the audience share Iago’s moment of recognition that this is a crucial point in his fortune, and we may feel admiration for how he has managed this chaotic situation
- twisting the comedia character- comedic character for villain
- everything hangs in the balance

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5:2

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English Literature - Paper 1 (17 decks)

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