My othello Flashcards
One that loved not wisely, but too well.
Destructive Love / A5S2 Othello
Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted
Destructive Love / A4S2 Othello
And when I love thee not chaos is come again (foreshadowing)
Destructive Love / Othello A3S3
To his honours and his valiant parts did I my soul and fortune consecrate
Idealised Love / Desdemona A1S3
Put out thy light
Idealised Love A5S2 Othello
That whiter skin of hers than snow and smooth as monumental alabaster
Idealised Love A5S2 Othello
The wine she drinks is made of grapes (just like all other women)
Idealised Love Iago A2S1
The riches of the ship…you men of Cyprus, let her have your knees!
Idealised Love Cassio A2S1
I nothing, but to please his fantasy.
Passive Love A3S3 Emilia
I will not charm my tongue, I am bound to speak
Passive Love A5S2 Emilia
I hope my noble lord esteems me honest
Passive Love A4S2 Desdemona
Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?
Passive Love A4S2 Desdemona
Kill me tomorrow, let me live tonight!
Passive Love A5S2 Desdemona
She loved me for the dangers I had passed and I love her that she did pity them.
Romantic Love A1S3 Othello
(O sees D) If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself, I’ll not believe’t.
Romantic Love A3S3 Othello
I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
Romantic Love A5S2 Othello
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe.
Romantic Love A5S2 Othello
Nobody. I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my fair lord.
Romantic Love / Passive love A5S2 Desdemona
Cold, cold, my girl, even like thy chastity.
Romantic Love A5S2 Othello
I have but an hour of love, of worldly matter and direction to spend with thee.
Romantic Love A1S3 Othello
It is a monster begot upon itself, born on itself.
Jealousy Emilia A3S4
It is the green eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
Jealousy Iago A3S3
Is not this man jealous?
Jealousy Emilia A3S4
I have a pain upon my forehead, here. (horns of cuckold)
Jealousy Othello A3S3
I think the sun where he was born drew all such humours from him
Jealousy Desdemona A3S3
prove my love a whore, be sure of it, give me the ocular proof
Jealousy Othello A3S3
‘twixt my sheets he’s done my office A1S3 / I do suspect the lusty Moor hath leaped into my seat A2S1
Jealousy Iago
My wife my wife! What wife? I have no wife
Marriage Othello A5S2
I took you for that cunning whore of Venice that married with Othello.
Marriage Othello A4S2
There’s many a beast then in a populous city, and many a civil monster.
Marriage Iago A4S1
That there be women do abuse their husbands in such gross kind?
Marriage Desdemona A4S2
Our general’s wife is now the general. A2S3 IAGO / Our great captain’s captain A2S1 CASSIO
Marriage
That we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!
Marriage Othello A3S3
In Venice they do let God see the pranks they dare not show their husbands
Marriage Iago A3S3
I do think it is their husbands’ faults if wives do fall. /
Let husbands know their wives have sense like them /
Have not we affectations..and frailty, as men have? /
Marriage Emilia A4S2
Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?
Marriage Emilia A4S2
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food: They eat us hungrily, and when they are full they belch us.
Marriage Emilia
She shunned the wealthy, curled darlings of our nation A1S2
Unrequited Love Brabantio
My daughter is not for thee. A1S1
Unrequited Love Brabantio
It is silliness to live when to live is torment A1S3
Unrequited Love Roderigo
Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell
Revenge / Betrayal A4S2 Othello
I’m glad at soul that I have no other child, for thy escape would teach me tyranny.
Revenge / Betrayal A1S3 Brabantio
If thou canst cuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport.
Revenge / Betrayal A1S3 Iago
She did deceive her father, marrying you
Revenge / Betrayal A3S3 Iago
Against all rules of nature A1S3 BRAB / and yet how nature, erring from itself A3S3 OTHELLO
Racism
O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!
Racism A5S2 Emilia
What delight shall she have to look upon the devil?
Racism A2S1 Iago
Her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face.
Context: Reputation A3S3 Othello
An honourable murderer, if you will (honour killing)
Context: Reputation A5S2 Othello
She must die, else she’ll betray more men
Context: Reputation A5S2 Othello
Reputation, Reputation, Reputation
Context: Reputation A2S3 Cassio
The very elements of this warlike isle.
Context: Setting A2S3 Iago
My lord, this would not be believed in Venice
Context: Setting A4S1 Lodovico
Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!
Context: Patriarchy A1S1 Iago
An old black ram is tupping your white ewe! A1S1
Unnatural / Sexual Love
Your daughter covered with a Barbary horse A1S1
Unnatural / Sexual Love
An old black ram is tupping your white ewe!
Unnatural / Sexual Love A1S1 Iago
Your daughter covered with a Barbary horse
Unnatural / Sexual Love A1S1 Iago
Your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs.
Unnatural / Sexual Love A1S1 Iago
She can turn, and turn A4S1 /
Damn her, lewd minx A3S3 /
Impudent strumpet! A4S2 /
Unnatural / Sexual Love Othello
She can turn, and turn A4S1 /
Damn her, lewd minx A3S3 /
Impudent strumpet! A4S2 /
Sexual Love Othello
If I be left behind, a moth of peace, and he go to war, the rites for which I love him are bereft me
Sexual Love A1S3 Desdemona
Behold her topped?
Sexual Love A3S3 Iago
He called her whore. A beggar in his drink could not have laid such terms upon his callat.
Maternal love / Friendship A4S2 Emilia
O lay me by my mistress’ side
Maternal love / Friendship A5S2 Emilia
If she be not honest, chaste and true there’s no man happy
Maternal love / Friendship A4S2 Emilia
I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear
Evil A2S3 Iago
The Moor’s abused by some most villainous knave
Evil A4S2 Emilia
O foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter
Patriarchal/Familial love A1S2 Brabantio
A maiden never bold, of spirit so still and quiet
Patriarchal/Familial love A1S3 Brabantio
I do perceive here a divided duty.
Patriarchal/Familial love A1S3 Desdemona
I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me!
Madness in Love Othello A4S1
Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell
Madness in Love A3S3 Othello
I’ll tear her all to pieces!
Madness in Love A3S3 Othello
Why gnaw you so your nether lip A5S2 /
I fear you, for your fatal then when your eyes roll so A5S2 /
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame A5S2
Madness in Love Desdemona
Goats and Monkeys! OTHELLO / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys IAGO A3S3
Madness in Love
O monstrous! Monstrous! A3S3
O blood, blood, blood! A3S3
Confess! Handkerchief! O devil! A4S1
Madness in Love Othello
I see you’re moved A3S3 / I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion A3
Madness in Love Iago
He falls into a trance A4S1 (stage direction)
Madness in Love Othello
How shall I murder him, Iago? A4S1
Madness in Love Othello
A jealousy so strong that judgement cannot cure A2S1
Madness in Love Iago
