Love and relationships Flashcards
‘Send for the lady’ O
Imperative verb ‘send’
Proper noun ‘lady’
O allows for D to have her own opinion within the matter
The trust… but let your sentence even fall upon my life’ O
Adverb of degree ‘even’
The extent of O love for D- he is even willing to put his position and his life on her faith
‘Let me go within him’ D
Declarative let
DV go
D wants to be released from her father’s constraints- however she doesn’t realise that O is just as controlling as B
‘But that our loves and comforts should increase even our days do grow’ D
Syndetic pair ‘loves and comforts’
Irony
D is happy with O and loves him, pointing out a criticism of the system of arranged marriages in the Tudor Era, though her statement is fuelled with irony by Shakespeare
‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed’ O
Past tense of the dynamic verb ‘loved’
Exoticism
D loves him for stories
‘My Lord is not my Lord’ D
Paradoxical declarative
Use of Vocative ‘my lord’ to convey a secondary meaning with the first-person possessive pronoun ‘My’
‘My wife, my wife: what wife? I have no wife’ O
Epiphora, Hypophora
O relationship with D is over, partially due to his suspicions and as she is nearly dead.
‘O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!’ O
Metaphysical, animalistic imagery, abstract noun curse
This reflects Othello’s inner turmoil as he begins to view all women and their actions as the same
‘Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted’
Symbolism
Repetition of abstract noun ‘lust’
Representative of the bed and how D has ruined it
‘He’s done my office’ I about O
Euphemism
The reason for I to manipulate O
‘I’ll have the work taken out and give it Iago’ E
DV give
She is still dedicated to Iago at this point, even more so than she is to D
‘To have a foolish wife’ I
Pre-modifier foolish
I constantly diminishes E
C-Contempary analysis of the character even go as far as to suggest a homosexual undertone to his desire to destroy O’s relationship. Evidence is his failing marriage
I charge you get you home’ I to E
Imperative
Second person pronoun
Iago is very controlling of E and dislikes it when she voices her opinion
‘O, who hath done this deed’ E
‘Nobody. I myself. Farewell’ D
Hyperbolic
E recognises that it isn’t usually the woman’s fault within the marriage as the man controls it
