Othello Flashcards by sam 😼

Iago. Act 1 quote describing himself.

“I am not what I am”
theme: appearance vs reality

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act 1 iago. describing Othello.

“The Moor is of a free and open nature, / That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, / And will as tenderly be led by the nose / As asses are. “

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act 1 othello. defending himself to brabantio.

“If virtue no delighted beauty lack, / Your son-in-law is far more fair than black”

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act 1 othello. telling brabantio to ask desdemona.

“My life upon her faith”

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act 2 cassio. telling iago what he has lost.

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. “

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what does iago do to make himself a villain? 6 things:

destroy lives- while looking like a devoted friend
thrives on a false reputation
duplicitous
disingenuous
enigmatic aura
sadistic

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3 key themes

jealousy
appearance VS Reality
womanhood

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act 2 iago. “defending cassio”.

“I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth / Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio”

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act 2 iago soliloquy. saying what he will do with desdemona.

“So will I turn her virtue into pitch, / And out of her own goodness will make the net / That shall enmesh them all”

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act 3 iago. telling othello to beware of jealousy.

“O beware, my lord of jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on.”

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act 3 iago. telling what men SHOULD be.

“Men should be what they seem; / Or those that be not, would they might seem none!”

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act 3 othello. talking about iago.

“This honest creature doubtless / Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds. “

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act 4 desdemona. saying how much she loves othello.

“My love doth so approve him / That even his stubbornness, his checks, his frowns - have grace and favour in them. “

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act 4 emilia. telling desdemona about her views on infidelity.

“Who would not make her husband a cuckold, to make him a monarch? I should venture purgatory for’t”

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act 4 emilia. telling desdemona what they should do and be used

“Then let them use us well; else let them know / The ills we do, their ills instruct us so. “

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act 5 othello. how he describes desdemona.

“So sweet was ne’er so fatal. “

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act 5 othello. talking to emilia

“She was false as water. “

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act 5 emilia. replies to othello

“Thou art rash as fire to say / That she was false. O, she was heavenly true!”

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act 5 iago. what he says when his crime is found out.

“Demand me nothing; what you know, you know. / From this time forth I never will speak word. “

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what iago says to cassio about reputation

“Reputation is an idle and false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving”

What is a technique that Iago uses to describe Othello?

Animalistic imagery - sends connations of Othello being ‘inferior’

What does animalistic imager link to?

Shakespeare might have used the animalistic imagery of describing Othello to dehumanize him - leading to central ideas of race superiority of the time this play was written, and societal opinions on inter-racial relationships. Can relate to Iago’s petty motivations seeming inadequate - deep rooted racism is implied with Iago’s hatred.

What is the play about?

The downfall from a high-ranking military general - Othello. A man driven to insanity by envy over the duplicitous plan Iago schemes to carry out.

What do soliloques do?

Allow characters to be open and honest with the audience.

Act 3 Scene 3. Desdemona assuring Cassio about Othello

"Do not doubt, Cassio, / But I will have my lord and you again / As friendly as you were"

Act 3 Scene 4.. Desdemona telling Emilia about how Othello is not jealous

"I think the sun where he was born / Drew all such humors from him"

Act 4 Scene 2. Desdemona telling Emilia her love for Othello

"His unkindness may defeat my life / But never taint my love"

Act 4 Scene 3. Desdemona explaining her view on infedality

"Beshrew me if I would so such a wrong/ For the whole world"

Act 3 Scene 3. Othello asserting faith in Desdemona

"No, Iago, I'll see before I doubt"

Act 4 Scene 2. Othello preparing to kill Desdemona

"Therefore be double dammed: Swear thou art honest"

Act 5 Scene 2. Othello when he realizes that he has been tricked and deceived

"Then must you speak / Of one that loved not wisely but too well"

Act 3 Scene 3. Othello when he rages about the torment he is experiencing now he is suspicious of his wife's fidelity

" I saw't not, thought it not, it harmed not me"

Act 1 Scene 1. Iago telling Roderigo he secretly hates Othello

"I follow him to serve my turn upon him"

Act 3 Scene 3. Iago comments that Desdemona has the capacity to lie and keep secrets from her father - by hiding her courtship with Othello

"She did deceive her father, marrying you"

Act 2 Scene 1. Cassio commenting to Iago after greeting Emilia with a kiss (shows his flirtatious behaviour that could be open to misinterpretation)

" 'Tis my breeding / That gives me this bold show of courtesy"

Act 3 Scene 3. Emilia picking up handkerchief (shows she feels little moral responsibilityP)

"What he will do with it, / Heaven knows, not I"

Act 3 Scene 4. Emilia warning that Desdemona is only newly married and may not yet understand her husbands true nature (suggests Emilia has only gradually learned who Iago truly is)

" 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man"

Act 3 Scene 3. After Emilia finds the handkerchief. critical lense: womanhood

"I nothing but to please his fantasy"

Act 3 Scene 3. Emilia describing handerchief

"This was her first remembrance from the Moor"

Act 3 Scene 3. Emilia giving Iago the handkerchief

"If it be not for some purpose of import, / Give't me again. Poor lady, she'll run mad / When she shall lack it"

Act 3 Scene 3. Iago telling scheme of what he will do with the handerchief

"I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin / ... / The Moor already changes with my poison"

Act 3 Scene 4. Desdemona telling Emilia about the fate of handkercheif

"... I had rather have lost my purse / Full of crusadoes"

Act 4 Scene 3. Desdemona telling Emilia about the 'Willow' song

"My mother had a maid called Barbary, / She was in love, and he she loved proved mad / And did forsake her. She had a song of 'Willow', / An old thing 'twas, but it expressed her fortune / And she died singing it. That song tonight / Will not go from my mind"

Act 5 Scene 2. Emilia talking to 'Desdemona'

"Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan, / And die in music.

Roderigo's last lines (2)

"O damn'd Iago! O inhuman dog" OR "O, I am slain!"

Act 1 Scene 3. Roderigo finding out about the marriage

"I will incontinently drown myself"

Act 1. Roderigo 'changing' when Iago go asks to put money in the purse

"I am changed: I'll sell all my land"

Act 2 Scene 3. Iago soliloquy about being the 'villain'

"And what's he then that says I play the villain, / When this advice is free I give, and honest"

4 quotes for Othello's love for Desdemona

"For she had eyes and chose me" "She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them" "I kissed thee ere I killed thee" "Killing myself, to die upon a kiss"