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othello act 1 Flashcards

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1
Q

who has money

A

roderigo

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2
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who uses roderigo’s money

A

iago

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3
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villian, backstabber, smart

A

iago

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4
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says he’s using money to woo desdamona for roderigo

A

iago

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5
Q

Iago appears to be loyal to ___ but he is actually ____

A

othello

jealous

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6
Q

important theme of

A

head vs. heart

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7
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who represents head

who represents heart

A

head- iago

heart-othello

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8
Q

who does othello promote over iago

A

michael cassio

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9
Q

what is known about florentines

A

womanizers

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10
Q

who wrote the Prince

A

Machievelii

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11
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who is Iago based off of

A

Machievelli for his evilness, wickedness, and strategicness

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12
Q

what is venice famous for

A

canals

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13
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"even now, now, very now, an old balck ram 
is tupping your white ewe"
speaker to who?
about who?
imagery?
A

iago to brabantia
about othello and desdemona
animal imagery
vulgarityhw

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14
Q

what is the beast with two backs

A

sex

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15
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who says the beast with two backs

A

iago

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16
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“i must show out a flag and sign of love”

A

iago

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17
Q

color imagery colors

A

white- desdemona
black-othello
green- jealousy

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18
Q

why is it appropriate for iago to swear upon janus

A

janus is the two faced roman god of beginnings and transitions.

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19
Q

who is the vulgar character

A

iago

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20
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iago tries to influence who onto his side

A

cassio

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21
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why does iago draw against roderigo

A

for show

22
Q

how had desdemona gone against nature

A 
white v.s black
young vs. old
class diffrerence 
gentle vs. warrior
Christian vs. Moor
23
Q

“Mine’s not an idle cause: the duke himself”

speaker

A

brabantio about arresting othello

24
Q

why does Desdemona love Othello

A

for his battle stories. all the dangers he’s been through.

Othello loves her for her strong emotions towards him

25
Q

“she loved me for the dangers I had pass’d,

And I loved her that she did pity them.”

A

othello about Desdemona

26
Q

how does the duke try to restore peace

A

he says that if you lament something that’s already happened, then you are setting yourself up for more bad news.

27
Q

“our bodies are _______”

speaker?

A

iago

gardens

28
Q

“that we are ____ or _____”

A

thus or thus

iago

29
Q

put money in thy purse meanse

A

liquidate your assets

sell land to have more cash

30
Q

what rumour does iago believe

A

that othello slept with iago’s wife

31
Q

“he has done my office”

A

iago about othello sleeping with his wife.

32
Q

“and will as tenderly be led by the nose

as asses are”

A

iago about othello

33
Q

who is the voice of reason to brabantio

A

duke

34
Q

who is put in charge of desdemona’s ship by othello

A

iago

35
Q

most complex character flaw

A

not a good judge of character but Iago is a master

36
Q

what does roderigo think about

A

killing himself

37
Q

“I do percieve here a divided duty”

A

desdemona about father and othello

38
Q

“She’d come again with a greedy ear

devour up my discourse”

A

othello about desd

39
Q

“But we have reason to cool our raging motions”

A

iago to roderigo

head v.s. heart

40
Q

“thus do i ever make my fool my purse”

A

iago about roderigo

41
Q

“rude am i in speech”

A

othello

irony-eloquent man

42
Q

“i follow him to serve my turn upon him”

A

iago to roderigo about othello

app v.s reality

43
Q

“incense her kisman, and though he in a fertile climate dwell
plague him with flies”

A

iago to roderigo about brabantio

plant imagery

44
Q

“a man he is of honesty and trust and to his conveyance I assign my wife”

A

othello about iago

irony

45
Q

I must show out a flag and sign of love”

A

iago to roderigo

app vs. relaity

46
Q

” thou hast practiced on her with foul charms”

A

brabantio to othello about desd

47
Q

“and little of this great world can I speak
mor than pertains to feats of broil and battle
and therefore little shall i ggrace my cause in speaking for myself”

A

othello to senate

48
Q

“to fall in love with what she feared to look on!… Against all rules of nature”

A

brabantio about desdemona loving othello

49
Q

“tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. our bodies are our gardens”

A

iago

garden imagry

50
Q

“the moor is of a free and open nature

that thinks men honest that but seem to be so. and will be led by nose as asses are”

A

iago talking about othello’s nobleness

51
Q

when devils will the blackest sins put on/ they do suggest at first with heavenly shows/ as I do now”

A

iago

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