Othello Flashcards
The mediator
“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them,”
She loved
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them,”
The Lover
“My soul’s joy, / If after every tempest come such calms, / May the winds
blow till they have wakened death,”
Farewell
“Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!”
“Farewell […] the big wars / That makes ambition virtue […] / Farewell
[…] pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!”
Black vengeance
“Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell! / Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne / To tyrannous hate!”
Internalised racism
“Her name, that was as fresh / as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black / as mine own face,”
Savage
“he foams at mouth and by and by / Breaks out to savage madness”
Savage
“he foams at mouth and by and by / Breaks out to savage madness”
Lust
“O curse of marriage, / that we can call these delicate creatures ours / and not their appetites,”
Before death
Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk / Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, / I took by th’throat the circumcised dog / And smote him thus,”