Othello A5 Flashcards
A5:1 - Iago: ‘Every way…
…makes my gain’.
- Whoever dies, his cause will be served.
[Iago wounds Cassio…
…from behind.]
[Enter, Iago…
…with a light]
A5:1 -Othello: ‘thy bed, lust-stained,…
…shall with lust’s blood be spotted.’
A5:1 -Iago: ‘guiltiness will speak…
… / Though tongues were out of use’
- Iago tries to implicate Bianca by exploiting her low status and ‘immoral’ occupation.
A5:1 -Iago: ‘This is the night that…
…either makes me or fordoes me quite.’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘Yet she must die, …
…else she’ll betray more me’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘I know not where…
…is that Promethean heat’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘That dost almost persuade…
…Justice to break her sword’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘I will kill thee…
…/ And love thee after.’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘If you bethink yourself of any crime…
…Solicit for it straight.’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘Think on…
…thy sins.’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘[thou] makest me call what I intend to do…
…a murder, which I thought a sacrifice!’
[He smothers…
…her]
A5:2 -Othello: ‘My wife, my wife! What wife?…
…I have no wife’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘murder’s…
…out of tune.’
A5:2 Des: ‘Nobody, …
…I myself, / Farewell’
A5:2 -Emilia: ‘O the more angel she, …
…and you the blacker devil!’
A5:2 -Emilia: ‘Villainy hath made…
…mocks with love!’
A5:2 -Emilia: ‘I care not…
…for thy sword.’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘nought I did in hate, …
…but all in honour’
A5:2 - Iago: ‘I told him…
…what I thought’
- Even his confession is dishonest.
A5:2 -Emilia: ‘I will not charm…
…my tongue.’
[Iago tries to…
…stab Emilia]
- He then succeeds.
A5:2 -Othello: ‘Who can control…
…his fate’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘That’s he…
…that was Othello’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘If that thou be’st…
…a devil, I cannot kill thee.’
[he wounds Iago]
A5:2 -Iago: ‘I bleed sir…
…but not killed’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘nought I did in hate, …
…but all in honour.’
A5:2 -Iago: ‘From this time forth…
…I will never speak a word.’
A5:2 -Othello: ‘a malignant and turbanned Turk…
…beat a Venetian and traduced the state’
- Iago is presented as a Turk. The enemy within.
A5:2 - Bianca: ‘I am no strumpet…
…But of life as honest as you that thus abuse me.’
