Othello - Marriage Flashcards
Marriage facilitating sexual intercourse
“Even now, now, very now, an old black ram/is tupping your white ewe”
Marriage male control, obedience
“I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband”
Female control in marriage, usurping Othello as head of household. Female domain?
“Our great captain’s captain”
Wives as chess pieces
“Till I am evened with him, wife for wife”
Passivity in marriage
“I nothing but to please his fantasy”
Marriage as sacred, infidelity/jealousy as hellish
“All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven/’tis gone/arise black vengeance, from the hollow hell!”
The anti-marriage
“”I am your own forever”
Use of witchcraft
“She told her, while she kept it/’twould make her amiable and subdue my father/entirely to her love”
Loyal wife
“Your wife, my lord, your true/and loyal wife”
Marriage founded on a lie - corrupted
“I took you for that cunning whore of Venice/that married with Othello”
Role of men in ruining marriage
“But i do think it is their husbands’ faults/if wives fall”
Obedience/loyalty to the last
“O banish me, my lord, but kill me not!”
Emilia breaking role of wife
“I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak/my mistress here lies murdered in her bed.”
Loyalty to friend over husband
“O, lay me by my mistress’ side”
