othello key quotes Flashcards
“I do suspect the lustful Moor…”
“Hath leap’d into my seat” 2.1
“O beware, my lord, of jealousy…”
“It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock/ The meat it feeds on.” 3.3
“Nature…”
“erring from itself” 3.3
CONCERNING OTHELLO: “Of a…”
“Free and open nature” 1.3
Villain speech quote (IAGO)
“Hell and night/ Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light” 1.3
Othello reflecting the villain speech
“O monstrous! Monstrous!” 3.3
Brabantio being racist
“sooty bosom” + “thing” 1.2
Bestial descriptions of Othello
“Barbary horse” “old black ram”
“Making the beast with two backs”
EMILIA: “the more angel she…”
“And you the blacker devil!” 5.2
More racism from 1.3
Brab. “Witchcraft” 1.3
Iago’s objectification of Othello
“The Moor”
Desdemona’s wishing to be a man
“Our great Captain’s Captain” 2.1 + “general” 2.3
Her desire to “go to war” 1.3
O: “wished/ That heaven had made her such a man” 2.1?
Othello’s changing view of Desdemona
“O my fair warrior” 2.1
VS
“call these delicate creatures ours/ And not their appetites!” 3.3
Emilia growing to hate Iago
“I nothing but please his fantasy” 3.3
VS
“Tis proper I obey him - but not now” 5.2
Desdemona = angel
“soul’s joy” 2.1
“devil!” [he strikes her] 4.1
“monumental alabaster” 5.2
