OTHELLO - OBSESSION WITH HONOUR/ THE MILITARY/ CONTROL/ REPUTATION Flashcards
Othello’s passion for the military
«With all my heart»
Prioritization of war over desdemona
«We must obey the time»
View of Desdemona in terms of the military
«O, my fair warrior»
Othello upon entering a scene
«it’s the soldier’s life to have their balmy slumbers waken with strife»
reputation
«My name… is now begrimed and black as my own face»
«To make me a fixed figure for the time of scorn»
Admission of own military focus
»and little of this great world can i speak more than pertains to feats of broil and battle»
Justice
the justice of it pleases
O balmy breath, that doth almost persuade justice to break her sword
Honourable murderer
»an honourable murderer, if you will, for naught did i in hate but all in honour»
Brabantio false ness
«her father loved me, oft invited me, still questioned me the story of my life»
Straight forwards truth
«i have married her, the very head»
Iago’s perception of him
« of a constant, noble, and loving nature’
Doubt - unr
«why of thy thought, Iago?»
«As if there was a monster in thy thought too hideous to be shown»
«These stops of thine frighten me»
A horned man…
‘S a monster and a beast»
