Othello Flashcards
Othello: magic
“Enchanted”
“Chains of magic”
“Oh curse of marriage”
Othello: love
“My soul”
“She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loath her.”
“Loved not wisely but too well”
Othello: jealousy
“For she had eyes, and chose me”
“Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought”
“I had rather be a toad”
Iago: Jealousy
“I follow him to serve my turn upon him”
“Your daughter and the moor are making the beast with two backs”
“It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on.”
Deception/manipulation
"Men should be what they seem" "But I, for mere suspicion in that kind, Will do as if for surety." "Look at her moore... She has deceived her father, and may thee." (Brabantio) "Ha! I like not that."
Race
“Old black ram is tupping your white ewe”
“Nephews neigh to you”
“To fall in love with what she feared to look on!”
“Your son-in-law is far more fair than black”
“Of her own clime, complexion, and degree”
“Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell!”
Desdemona
“Why do you speak so faintly? Are you not well?”
“My downright violence and storm of fortunes
May trumpet to the world.”
“My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty”
Gender
“Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags! Thieves, thieves!”
“Yet she wished that heaven had made her such a man.”
“In Venice they do let God see the pranks they dare not show their husbands.”
“O, devil, devil!”
Warfare
“Horribly stuffed with epithets of war”
“I must show out a flag and sign of love—which is indeed but sign.”
“Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war”
“Come, Desdemona, I have but an hour
Of love, of worldly matters, and direction,
To spend with thee. We must obey the time.”
Identity
“In following him, I follow but myself”
“Who would be a father!”
“And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace”
“Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our
wills are gardeners.”
