Iago quotes

Question 1

Iago sexualizing women

Answer 1

“It is merely a lust of the blood and permission of the will” (1.3)

“A thing for me?” (3.3)

“In Venice they do not let God see the pranks / They are not show their husbands. Their best conscience Is not to leav’t undone, but keep’t unknown” (2.1) CONT - Venetian women

“strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated” (2.3) BEDSHEET MOTIF

“players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds” (2.1)

“you rise to play and go to bed to work” (2.1)

“That she repeals him for her body’s lust; And by how much she strives to do him good” (2.3) - Iago assuming that Desdemona is attracted to Cassio [stereotypes].

“With her? On her. What you will.” (4.1)

Question 2

Iago using animal imagery

Answer 2

“were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys” (3.3)

“a black ram is tupping your white ewe” (1.1)

Question 3

Iago thinking that he’s god / the devil

Question 4

Examples of Iago using manipulation

Question 5

Iago being completely self centered and selfish

Question 6

Iago’s possible motivations?

Answer 6

Racism:
“If she be but black, and thereto have a wit, She’ll find a white that shall her blackness fit” (2.1)

“we work by wit, and not by witchcraft” (2.3)

Homosexuality

Jealousy

Destiny?