Othello Flashcards

1
Q

I’m the general I don’t need to worry .I’ve done nothing wrong (shows self confidence authority dignity and calmness)

A

I must be found ,my parts,my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly

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2
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Addressing the council

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Most potent grave and reverend signiors

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3
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He saying he lacks elegance

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Rude am I in my speech and little blest with the set phrase of peace

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4
Q

His version how he wooed Desdemona

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She loved me for the dangers I have and I loved her that she did pity them

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5
Q

Duke is impressed by Othellos story

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I think this tale would win my daughter too

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6
Q

Cruel sexual imagery trying to wind up D’s father

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Even now very now and old black tan is tupping your white ewe

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7
Q

B is convinced O put a spell on D to make her fall in love

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Thou hast practised on her with foul charms

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8
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The attraction is unnatural

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Against all rules of nature

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9
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Why B thinks D couldn’t love O

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To fall in love with what she fear’d to look on

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10
Q

Prophetic words to Othello. She fooled her father…

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Look to her Moor ,if thou hast eyes to see , she has deceived her father and may thee

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11
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Shows how content he is with his wife now he is happy

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If it were now to die , ‘twere now to be most happy

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12
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Prophetic quote about their relationship

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Excellent wretch ,perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee and when I love thee not, chaos is come again

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13
Q

Othello refuses to believe D is unfaithful

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if she be false then heaven mocks itself I’ll not believe it

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14
Q

My husband is a good guy not the jealous type

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My noble moor is true of mind and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are

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15
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Os trust in Iago

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A man he is of honesty and trust

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16
Q

His life depends on Desdemona

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My life upon her faith, honest Iago

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17
Q

Supposing O slept with his wife

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I hate the moor, for t’is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets he’s done my office

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18
Q

Tells us Iago is cunning and O’s naivety compares him to animal

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The Moor is of a free and open nature that thinks men honest that but seems to be and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are

19
Q

What he plans to do to Othello

A

A jealousy so strong that judgement cannot cure

20
Q

Going to make a fool out of Othello

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Make the Moor thank me,reward me and love me for making him egregiously an ass

21
Q

Othello says I know you’re going to defend your friend but you need to be honest

A

I know, Iago, thy honesty and love doth mince this matter ,making it light to Cassio , I love thee but never more be officer of mine

22
Q

Sees Cassio speaking to D

A

Ha! I like not that

23
Q

Iago gives friendly and honest advice

A

Look to your wife , observe her well with Cassio

24
Q

Exploring his lack of knowledge

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In Venice they do let god see the pranks they dare not show their husbands

25
Q

Advice on how to kill D

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Do it not with poison.Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated

26
Q

Ironic . You feel my pain you’ve been such a help to me

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O brave Iago, honest and just, thou hast such noble sense of thy friends wrong, thou teachest me

27
Q

Image of jealousy being a monster that consumes a person

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O beware my lord of jealousy ! It is the green eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds on

28
Q

Shows Othello willing to kill wife

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I’ll tear her all to pieces

29
Q

His piece of mind , happiness and self esteem are now gone

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O now forever, farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content!

30
Q

Iagos peak moment

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Now art thou my lieutenant

31
Q

Emilia gives out to O

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Moor, she was chaste, she loved thee, cruel moor

32
Q

Just after O hit D

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Is this the noble moor who out full senate call all in all sufficient ?
This the noble nature whom passion could not shake?
Whose solid virtue the shot of accident, nor dart of chance, chould neither graze nor pierce?

33
Q

O telling himself what he’s done is justified

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It is the cause, it is the cause

34
Q

O logic

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Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men

35
Q

O is going to kill her quickly

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I am that cruel, am yet merciful. I would not have thee linger in thy pain

36
Q

Emilia shock at O actions

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O gull, O dolt as ignorant as dirt

37
Q

Othello admits certain factor are out of his control

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But O vain boast, who can control his fate.

38
Q

Othello remorse( what he deserves )

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Blow me about in winds, roast me in sulphur, wash me in steep down gulfs of liquid fire

39
Q

Asking for an explanation from Iago

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Will you, I pray demand that demi-devil why he has thus ensnared my soul and body ?

40
Q

He acted out of honour not hatred

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For naught do I hate, but all in honour

41
Q

Long quote

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Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice
they you must speak of one who loved not wisely but too well
of one not easily jealousy but being wrought perplexed in the extreme
of one whose hand, like the base Judean who threw a Pearl away richer than all his tribe

42
Q

Last line of the play

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Myself will straight abroad and to the state/ this heavy act with heavy heart relate

43
Q

Talking about how jealousy is created itself

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It is a monster begot upon itself, born upon itself