Othello Flashcards
The suffering of the Tragic hero:
Othello’s soliloquy
- 3= - about Desdemona
- repetition in despair of Desdemona
- saying Lagos torturing him
- “she’s gone”
- “O monstrous!, monstrous !”
- “thou hast set me on the rack”
The suffering of the Tragic hero:
- 1
- Othello feeling sorry for the situation ,after the overhearing scene - 2
- Othello finding out Desdemona was virtuous all along ,repetition
- His objectifying yet complimentary metaphor of Desdemona in his last soliloquy
-“But yet the pity of it ,Iago! O Iago, the pity of it ,Iago!”
- “O Desdemona Dead Desdemona! Dead! O,O!”
- “threw a pearl away richer then all his tribe” (like the base Indian)
The suffering of the Tragic Victim:
- 3 : Roderigo talking bout suicide
- 3: 2 quotes on Cassio talking about loosing his job as lieutenant
- “it is silliness to live when to live is torment”
- Reputation, Reputation”
- “lost the immortal part of myself ,and what remains is bestial”
The suffering of the Tragic victim:
- 4.1 Cassio reaction to being called Lieutenant by Iago
- 4.2
Othello mocking Desdemona for her stereotypical Venetian quality
“the worser you give me the addition whose want even kills me”
“I cry your mercy then; I took you for that cunning whore of Venice that married with Othello”
The suffering of the Tragic victim
- 1
- Roderigos last words ,unveiling of Iagos villainy
- Bianca showing herself honest// denying her involvement w Cassios attack - 2 -Desdemonas last words of loyalty to Othello
- Emilias last words (2 quotes)
- “O damned Iago! O inhumane dog”
- “I am no strumpet but of life as honest as you that thus abuse me”
- “nobody: I myself, farewell, commend me to my kind lord”
- “Willow,Willow,Willow” , “she was chaste: she loved thee, cruel moor”
The pride of the tragic hero
- 2 Othello description of himself
- 1 Cassio describing desdemona
- 1 Othello mad that he was cheated on
“my parts , my title, my perfect soul’
He hath achieved a maid that paragons description
will chop her into messes. Cuckold me ?
The pride of the tragic hero . 5.2 Othello
- pridefully defending the murder he is about to commit ,his motives
- Lodovico asks what they should call him
- Describes himself in final speech
- “she must die,else shell betray more men”
- ‘A honourable murder ,if you will”
- “one that loved not wisely ,but to well”
The folly of the tragic hero
3.3 (2 quotes) , Othello is deceived
4.1 asking Iago how to murder Cassio
4.2 When he ignores These lines said by Emilia
(betting her soul n telling to ignore whoever telling him this)
5.2 realising his folly
- O curse of marriage! , “now I do see tis true”
- “how shall I murder him Iago?”
- “if any wretch have put this in your head”, “she is honest lay Down my soul at stake “
- “O fool, fool,fool!”
The blindness and insight of tragic hero
- 3
- asking Iago to prove her unfaithful
- lists all reasons why Iago can be trusted \ - 1 - Blind to his attempt to make him dislike her
- 1- complimenting Iagos honesty and radar
-“thou prove my love a whore”
“exceeding honesty and knows all qualities ,with a learned spirit of human dealings”
- “nay you must forget that”
- “O brave Iago, honest and just” “hast such a noble sense of thy friends wrong!”
Discovery and Learning of the tragic hero
- 1 - Negative descriptions (2 quotes from R and I)
- 3- Postitive descriptions
5.2- Learning Iago is the villain (insults)
- “Thick lips” ‘,old Black ram”
- “Valiant” “,moor”
- “O,O,O!”, “Precious villain”
The Tragic hero being a mix of good and evil
- 2- Iagos reaction to Brabantio accusing him of bewitching Desdemona
- 3- Othello finding out Cassio started the fighting got drunk (2 quotes)
- 3- Othello is persuaded Desdemona is with Cassio after being shown the handkerchief (crown metaphor)
- “Keep up your bright swords for the dew will rust them”
- ‘My blood begins my safer rule”, “never more be officer of mine”
- ” yield up , O love, thy crown and hearted throne to tyrannous hate!’
The Tragic hero being a mix of good and evil
- 1 (after overhearing scene) -Is turn between murderous hatred and love for D (3quotes)
- 2 - Othello mercilessly killing her (2 quotes)
- “a fine woman! ,a fair woman! ,a sweet woman!”, “O, the world hath not a sweeter creature”, “so gentle a condition”
- “down strumpet”, “it is too late”
Villain being partly responsible for the tragic heros demise
- 3- in his soliloquy (2quotes -talking of revenge and how he will abuse Ostrust)
- 3- After telling Cassio to speak to Desdemona on getting his job back, addressing the audience
- 3: “let us be conjunctive in our revenge against him , thou dost myself a pleasure, me a sport”, “He holds me well the better shall my purpose work”
- 3- “what’s he then, that says I play the villain?”
Villain being partly responsible for the tragic heros demise
3.3- Iago first putting hints of an affair into Othello’s head
telling Othello of Venetian stereotype
reminding him of how she lied to her dad
4.1- telling Othello how to kill Desdemona
3.3- “ha? I like not that”
“In Venice they let god see the pranks they dare not show their husbands’
‘she did deceive her father, marrying you”
4.1 “do it not with posion; strangle her”
Inevitability of the fate of the Tragic hero
- 3 Iago picking out the characters flaws and frameability (how easy the characters were to make this plan)
- 3 - Othellos insecurities make him easily susceptible
- “he hath a person and a smooth dispose/ framed to make women false”, “the moor is of free and open nature that think men honest that but seem to be so “
- “I am black and have not those soft parts of conversation that chambers have’
Revenge
1.1 - Iago saying he serves othello to deceive him
1.3- forms the plan of lying about Cassio having an affair
2.1- Giving Rodrigo instructions
statement of revenge
3.3- Iago planning what to do w the handkerchief (2 quotes)
- I follow him to serve my turn upon him
- ” abuse Othellos ear that he is to familiar with his wife
- “find some occasaion to anger Cassio
“nothing shall or can content my soul till I am evened with him”
3.3- I will in Cassio’s lodgings loose this napkin” “this may do something”
2.1 - moment of happiness
where they compliment one another
‘O, my fair warrior” , “my dear Othello”
Tragic Villains motives
1.1- professional jealousy
1.3- belief of sexual jealousy of Othello and his wife
2.1- sexual jealousy
,sexual jealousy causing him actual pain (metaphor)
5.1- Cassio’s life and character
1.1-
1.3- “Abroad that twixt my sheets he hath done my office
2.1- “till I am evened with him wife for wife” +
“the thought where of doth, like a poisonous mineral knaws at my inwards”
5.1- “he hath a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly”
