Othello key quotes: Duplicity Flashcards
What did Iago say to Roderigo in Act 1,scene 1?
‘I will wear my heart on my sleeve for daws to peck at. I am not what I am.
Which character said ‘make my fool my purse;’?
Iago (Act 1,scene 3 soliloquy)
‘Put money in thy purse’
Act 1, scene 3
‘Our bodies are gardens, to which our will are gardeners’. When did Iago say this?
Act 1, scene 3
‘wild-cats in your kitchens, players in your housewifery’ Iago
Act 2, scene 1
‘ensnare as great a fly as Cassio’
Act 2, scene 1
(Aside) ‘I’ll set down the pegs that make this music’
Act 2, scene 1
What did Iago say to Roderigo in reference to Cassio and Desdemona’s relationship?
‘an index and obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts’ - Act 2, scene 1
‘Knavery’s plain face is never seen till used’
Iago soliloquy - Act 2, scene 1
‘I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio’
Act 2, scene 3
‘make the net that shall emmesh them all’
Act 2, scene 3 (soliloquy)
‘She did deceive her father marrying you’
Act 3, scene 3
‘He kneels ‘Witness here that Iago doth give up the execution of his wit, hands and heart’
Act 3, scene 3
‘I am your own forever’
Act 3, scene 3’
‘What if I said I had seen him do you wrong?’
Act 3, scene 4
‘his unbookish jealousy must construe Poor Cassio’s smiles, gestures and light behaviours’
Act 4, scene 1
‘Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated’
Act 4, scene 1
(if you have not been with Desdemona) ‘take me from this world with treachery’
Iago to Roderigo Act 4, scene 2
‘The world’s a huge thing; it is a great price for a small vice’
Emilia Act 4, scene 3
‘I might do’t as well i’th’dark’
Contrast to Desdemona’s ‘heavenly light’ (Act 4, scene 3)
‘Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?’
Act 4, scene 3
‘O murderous slave! O villain’
Iago before stabbing Roderigo
‘This is the night that either makes me, or fordoes me quite’
Act 5, scene 1
Iago stabs Emilia from behind and exit
horrible husband - Act 5 scene 2
