Othello Key Quotes: Jealously Flashcards
1
Q
OTHELLO: ‘Think’st thou I’d make a life of jealously, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No, to be once in doubt Is to be once resolved.’
A
- Othello does not believe someone should linger in jealously and clear any doubt as soon as possible.
2
Q
‘O beware jealously […] it is the green-eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds on,’
A
- Metaphor.
3
Q
‘my noble Moor is true of mind and made no such baseness As jealous creatures are, it were enough To put him to ill thinking.’
A
- Tragic awareness of how the handkerchief will look in the wrong hands.
- Cataphoric reference, Othello sees Cassio with the handkerchief and it drives him further into jealously.
4
Q
“I’ll tear her all to pieces!”
A
- Violent imagery
- Jacobean attitude: Black people were barbarian. Othello is beginning to conform to these racist stereotypes.
- Reflects Othello’s militan/soldier instincts and capabilities.
5
Q
“They are not ever jealous for the cause,”
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- Emilia states that men don’t need a reason to be jealous.
- cynicism because of her tumultuous relationship with Iago.
6
Q
“‘Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.”
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- Mirrors Iago’s speech
- Was Emilia in on her husbands plan or not?
