Othello Flashcards
othello’s quotes about Jealousy (7)
“O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, but not their appetites!”
“I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapour of a dungeon than keep a corner in the one I love for others uses”
“Be sure thou prove my love a whore, be sure of it, give me the ocular proof”
“Her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face”
“But I do love thee! and when I do not love thee, chaos is come again”
“If she lost it, my father’s eye would hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt after new fancies.”
“yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men.”
othello’s quotes about love (6)
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.”
“She’d come again, with a greedy ear, devour up my discourse.”
“She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished that heaven had made her such a man.”
“If after every tempest came such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened death.”
“Iago is most honest”
“killing myself, to die upon a kiss.”
othello’s quotes after being affected by iago (3)
“Put out the light, then put out the light!”
“My wife, my wife! What wife? I have no wife.”
“Her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face”
“Haply, for I am black and have not those soft parts of conversation”
What does Michael Neil say about Othello in terms of race?
“Othello is the study of an assimilated savage who relapses into primitivism under stress.”
What is AC Bradley’s opinion on Othello?
“Othello is the most romantic figure among Shakespeare’s heroes.”
What does FR Leavis feel that Othello displays?
“A not uncommon kind of grudging malice.”
