Motifs

Question 1

Bedsheet motif

Answer 1

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1) “The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue: That profit’s yet to come ‘tween me and you” (Ao2 So3)

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1) “Strangle her in her bed that she hath contaminated” (Ao4 So1)
2) “Lay on my bed wedding sheets: remember” (Ao4 So3)

Question 2

Handkerchief motif

Answer 2

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1) “But she so loves the token” (Ao3 So3)
2) “To kiss and talk to” (Ao3 So3)

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1) “but if she lost it or made gift of it, my father’s eye should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt after new fancies” (Ao3 So4)
2) “I will in Cassio’s lodging lose this napkin and let him find it. Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong” (Ao3 So3)

Question 3

Soul motif

Answer 3

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1) “O my souls joy!” (Ao2 So1)
2) “Lay down my soul at stake” - Emilia (Ao4 So2)
3) “Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! And when I love thee not Chaos is come again” (Ao3 So3)

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1) “Even as her appetite shall play the god” - Iago believing he can control people’s souls (Ao2 So3)
2) “demand that demi-devil / Why he hath ensnared my soul and body” (Ao5 So2)
3) “jewel of their souls” (Ao3 So3)
4) “let thy soul be instructed” (Ao2 So1)

Question 4

Monster motif

Answer 4

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1)[Desdemona] “My noble Moor / Is true of mind, and made of no such baseness / As jealous creatures are (Ao3 So4)

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1) “O beware my lord of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster” (Ao3 So3)
2) “I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial” (Ao2 So3)
3) “I have’t! It is engendered! Hell and night / Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light” (Ao1 So3)
4) Othello [about Iago] “By heaven, he echoes me, / As if there were some monsters in his thought / Too hideous to be shown” (Ao3 So3)
5) “This honest creature doubtlss / Sees and knows more, much more, than h unfolds” (Ao3 So3) [Ironic because Othello is calling Iago out for his chaos without even realizing it.
6) “Sweeter creature” (Ao4 So1) - Juxtaposition = conflict in othello’s mind.
7) “They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; they eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they belch us” (Ao3 So4)

Question 5

Animal imagery

Answer 5

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1) You’ll have your daughter covered by a Barbary horse; you’ll have your nephews neigh to you; you’ll have coursers for cousins, and gennets for germans (Ao1 So1).
2) “an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe” (Ao1 So1)
3) “With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.” (Ao2 So1)
4) “I had rather be a toad” (Ao3 So3)
5) “Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys” (Ao3 So3)
6) “O damn’d Iago! O inhumane dog!” (Ao5 So1)

Question 6

Religious motif

Answer 6

:) 1) “The divine Desdemona” (Ao2 So1)
2) “No by this heavenly light” (Ao4 So3)

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1) “Enter Othello with a light” (Religious imagery - preforming a sacrifice in order to bring justice)

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1) “Exchange me for a goat” (Ao3 So3)
2) “Sweating little devil” (Ao3 So4)
3) “O the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!” (Ao5 So2)
4) “Heaven truly knows thou are false as hell” (Ao4 So2)
5) “Divinity of hell” (Ao2 So3)
6) “If any wretch have put this in your head, Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse” (Emilia talking about Adam and Eve and curse of original sin)
7) “The devil their virtue tempts, and thy tempt heaven” (Ao4 So1)