othello act 2 notes - from reading Flashcards
setting changes from
venice to a sea port in cyprus
order of arrival of ships
Cassio,
Iago, emilia, Desdemona,
Othello
who is montano
governor of cyprus
“you rise to play and go to bed to work”
speaker to who?
iago to Emilia
“He takes her by the palm”
iago talking about how cassio freely flirts with his wife
“with as little web as this”
iago talking about how he will be undoing cassio’s flirtations
“it stops me here”
what is here?speaker?
othello to desdemona
heart
“O, you are well tuned now”
iago
“her eye must be fed”?
iago to roderigo
she’s going to want a handsome man
“full of the most blessed condition”
roderigo to iago about desdemona
“the wine she drinks is made of grapes”
?
iago to roderigo about desdemona.
she’s full of the same blood as us. she is a lustful woman.
cassio’s problem
he is rash and very sudden in choler. haply may strike at you.
“a constant, loving, noble nature”
iago about othello
“jeaousy so strong
that judgmenet cannot cure”?
iago about othello.
poor trash of venice
roderigo
point of scene 2
herald announces that there will be a feast to celebrate the ruin of the turkish fleet and othello’s marriage
that honourable stop
othello to cassio
restraint and moderation
I am unfortunate in the infirmity”
cassio
Ifi can fasten but one cup upon hm
iago about cassio
do not think men, that I am drunk
cassio
“I fear the trust that Othello puts him”
iago to montano about cassio
“I do love cassio well, and would do much to cure him of this evil”
iago, app vs. reality
“are we turn’d turks, and to ourselves do that
which heaven hath forbid the ottomites?
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othello
