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English literature: Paper 1 - Drama > Othello: Key quotes > Flashcards

Othello: Key quotes Flashcards

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Iago: ‘O, beware, my Lord…

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‘O, beware, my lord of jealousy! It is the green=eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on’ (famous metaphor, ironically its Iago)

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Emilia: ‘Jealous souls will not be answered…

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‘Jealous souls will not be answered so. They’re not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster begot upon itself, born on itself’

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Iago: ‘but partly led to diet…

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‘but partly led to diet my revenge for that I do suspect the lusty Moor hath leaped into my seat’

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Iago: ‘in my personal…

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‘In my personal pursuit to make me his lieutenant’

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Iago: ‘We cannot…

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‘We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed’

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Iago: ‘Rouse him…

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‘Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight..plague him with flies’

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Iago: ‘Zounds, sir…

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‘Zounds, sir, you’re robbed: for shame’

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Iago: ‘an old black…

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‘an old black ram is tupping your white ewe!’

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Iago: ‘your daughter and the Moor…

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‘your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs’

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Brabantio: ‘Thou art…

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‘Thou art a villian’

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Iago: ‘Are you…

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‘Are you fast married?’

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Othello: ‘My parts…

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‘My parts, my title and my perfect soul’

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Brabantio: ‘thou foul thief…

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‘thou foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter?’ ‘enchanted her’

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Brabantio: ‘practised on her…

Act 1 scene 2

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‘practised on her with foul charms’ ‘an abuser of the world, a practices of arts’.

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Senator 1: ‘Brabantio and…

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‘Brabantio and the valiant Moor’

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Brabantio: ‘she is abused…

Act 1 scene 3

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‘she is abused, stol’n from me, and corrupted by spells and medicines bought of mountebanks’

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Othello: ‘I won…

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‘I won his daughter’

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Brabantio: ‘to fall in love…

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‘to fall in love with what she feared to look on?’

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Othello: ‘the Anthropophagi…

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‘the Anthropophagi, and men who’s heads do grow beneath their shoulders’

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Othello: ‘this is the only…

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‘this is the only witchcraft I have used’

21
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Desdem: ‘here’s my husband;…

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here’s my husband; And so much duty my mother showed’

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Brabantio: ‘that nothing bears…

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‘that nothing bears but the free comfort which from thence he hears’

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Iago: ‘virtue?…

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‘Virtue? a fig!’

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Iago: ‘These Moors are…

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‘These Moors are changeable in their wills’

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Iago: ‘Fill…

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‘Fill they purse with money’

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Iago: ‘thought abroad that…

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‘Thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets he’s done my office’

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Iago: ‘Hell and night…

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‘Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light’

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Cassio: ‘our great…

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‘our great captain’s captain’

29
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Cassio: ‘you may relish…

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‘you may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar’

30
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Othello: ‘O my fair…

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‘O my fair warrior!’

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Iago: ‘her delicate…

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‘her delicate tenderness will find itself abused, begin to heave the gorge, disrelish and abhor the Moor’

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Iago: ‘‘Blest figs-end…

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‘Blest figs-end! The wine she drinks is made of grapes’

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Iago: ‘a shorter…

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‘a shorter journey to your desires’

34
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Iago: ‘wife…

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‘wife for wife’

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Iago: ‘Cassio loves…

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‘Cassio loves her, I do well believe’t; That she loves him’

36
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Iago: ‘at least into…

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‘at least into jealousy so strong that judgment cannot cure’

37
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Othello: ‘Iago is…

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‘Iago is most honest’

38
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Iago: ‘Our bodies are…

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‘Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners’ (metaphor, gardeners have choice of what to grow)

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Iago: ‘The food that to…

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‘The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida’ (metaphor, coloquintida is a bitter laxative)

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Iago: ‘There are many events…

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‘there are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered’ (metaphor)

41
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Iago: ‘Hath leaped into my seat…

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‘Hath leaped into my seat. The thought whereof

Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inward’ (euphemism)

42
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Iago: ‘You are but now cast in his mood…

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‘You are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenseless dog to affright an imperious lion’ (Iago says what want to here, mischievous)

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Iago ‘Who steals my purse steals trash. ‘Tis something, nothing…

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Who steals my purse steals trash. ‘Tis something, nothing:
‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands.
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed’ (extended metaphor, saying reputation to a precious jewel that unlike money is worthless to anyone who steals it)

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Othello: ‘Oh, ay, as summer…

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‘Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,
That quicken even with blowing.’ (sarcastically tells des he thinks she honest like flies in a slaughter house: simply blow on them and they fly away)

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Othello: ‘Yet I’ll not shed her blood…

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‘Yet I’ll not shed her blood,
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow
And smooth as monumental alabaster’ (comparing witness des skin to snow and alabaster (mineral) and thus stains her witness with blood’

46
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Emilia: ‘they are all but…

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‘they are all but stomachs, and we al but food…’

Act 3, scene 4

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Emilia: ‘And have their…

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‘And have their palates for both sweet and sour’

Act 4, Scene 3

English literature: Paper 1 - Drama (13 decks)

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