Marriage Flashcards
Emilia lives to serve iago
I nothing but to please his fantasy
Women’s crimes are only them mimicking what men do to them
Else let them know, the ills we do, their ills instruct us so
Woman are just as entitled to vice as men
Have we not affections? Desires for sport? And frailty, as men have
Metaphor of consumption for marriage (Emilia)
They are all but stomachs, and we are all but food…when they are full, they belch us
Emilia connects Othello’s jealousy with Iago’s
Some such squire he was, that turned your wit the seamy side without and made you suspect me with the moor
Husbands responsible for the wives crimes
It is there husbands fault if wives do fall
Desdemona affirms her innocence
Beshrew me if I would do such a wrong, for the whole world
Desdemona chooses between her father and Othello
I do perceive here a divided duty
Desdemona refuses to denounce Othello
His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love
Desdemona is made worse by her marriage to Othello
As fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face
The importance of the handkerchief to Desdemona
She reserves it evermore about her, to kiss and talk too
Foreboding devotion of Othello to Desdemona
When I love thee not, chaos is come again
Metaphor of transaction with regards to Othello’s marriage
The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue
Othello’s faith is Desdemona
For she had eyes and chose me
Desdemona has power over Othello
Her jesses were my dear heartstrings, I’d whistle her off and let her down the wind
Othello curses his marriage
Curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours not their appetites
Othello struggling to balance marriage and duty
I prattle out of fashion, and I dote in mine own comforts
Othello’s poetic praise of Desdemona
May winds blow till the have wakened death
Inevitable clash between Othello’s identity as a husband and a soldier
‘It’s the soldiers life, to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife
Stichomythia example got hello and Desdemona
Succeed in unknown fate. The heavens forbid
Iago’s metaphor of Othello as a theif
Thieves, thieves, thieves! Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!
Metaphors for Desdemona’s control over Othello
Our captain’s captain
Our general wife is now the general
Iago revealing the illusion of his plan to destroy Desdemona
Her honour is an essence that is not seen
Animalistic imagery for Othello and Desdemona’s desire
An old black ram is tipping your white ewe
Symbolism of Desdemona’s murder
Strangle her in bed, even the bed she hath contaminated
Othello’s symbolic marriage to Iago
In the due reverence of a sacred vow, I here engage my words
Iago Kneels
Iago doth give you the execution of his wit, hands, heart
Othello compares Desdemona to a prostitute
We have done our course, there’s money for your pains
Iago equated his marriage to business
It is thought abroad that ‘Twixt my sheets, he’s done my office
Iago’s suspicion of Cassio
For I fear Cassio with my night cap too
Iago suggests Desdemona is unnatural because she chose Othello
It is such a will most rank, foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural
Iago degrades Emilia
You have a thing for me? It is a common thing
Good wench, give it me
