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(Imagery) The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds; ..

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The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous mane

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(Imagery) The… hath so bang’d the Turk

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desperate tempest

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(Foreshadowing) And prays the moor be safe; for they ?..

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were parted with foul and violent tempest

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(Cassio describing Desdemona) Most fortunately: he hath achieved …

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a maid that paragons description and wild fame; one that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, and in the essential vestures of creation does tire the ingener

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(Imagery) Tempests themselves …

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high seas, and howling winds, The gutter’d rocks and congregated sands

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(Cassio describing Desdemona/ Desdemona’s holiness) Hail to thee, lady…

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and the grace of heaven

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(Iago’s Sexism/ role of women) you are ….

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pictures out of doors, bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens, saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds

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(Iago’s facile vernacular) Theses are old fond ….

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paradoxes to make fools laugh I’ the alehouse

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(Desdemona on Iago’s profanity) Is he not a most….

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profane and liberal counsellor

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(Cassio on Iago’s coarseness) He speaks home madam ..

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You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar

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(Iago’s aside showing malice and cunning) He takes her by the palm: ay, well said, whisper …

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with as little a web as

this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio

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(Iago’s aside showing malice and cunning) Ay, smile upon her, do…

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I will

give you in your own courtesies

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(Iago’s aside showing malice and cunning) You say true; ;tis so, indeed..

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if such

tricks as these strip you out of your lieutenantry

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(Othello’s
emotional
over-investment
in Desdemona) “O my soul’s joy!…

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If after every tempest come such calms

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(Othello’s
emotional
over-investment
in Desdemona) As hells from heaven…

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If it were now to die,Twere now

to be most happy

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(Iago’s malice &

cunning) “O, you are well tuned now …

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But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music

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(Iago’s racism /
description of
lust) “Her eye must be fed; and what…

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delight shall she have to look on the devil

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(Iago’s description

of insatiable lust)

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Her eye must be fed/ When the blood is made dull with the act of sport, there should be, again to inflame it and to give satiety a fresh appetite

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(Roderigo on
Desdemona’s
holiness) “she’s full of most…

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blessed condition

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(Iago on Cassio) he is rash and…

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very sudden in choler

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(Iago on Othello’s

nobility) howbeit that I endure him not…

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Is of a constant, loving, noble nature

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22
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(Iago’s fear of

Emilia’ infidelity) “For that I do suspect the…

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lusty Moor Hath leaped into my seat, the

thought whereof Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards”

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(Iago’s desire for

revenge) Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards……

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And
nothing can or shall content my soul Till I am even’d with him, wife for
wife, Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor At least into a jealousy so
strong That judgment cannot cure.”

24
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(Iago’s fear of

Emilia’ infidelity) For I fear Cassio…..

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with my night-cap too

25
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(Iago’s

improvisation) “Tis here, but yet confused…

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Knavery’s plain face is never seen tin used

26
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(Description of

merry-making) each man to what sport and revels his addiction leads him…All offices are open, and …

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there is full liberty of feasting from this present

hour of five till the bell have told eleven

27
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(Othello trusts

Michael Cassio) “Good Michael…

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look you to the guard to-night: Let’s teach ourselves that honourable stop, Not to outsport discretion.”

28
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(Iago’s coarse /

vulgar idiolect) “She [Desdemona] is sport for Jove….

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I’ll warrant her full of game

29
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(Cassio on

Desdemona) She is what ….

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She is indeed perfection

30
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(Cassio’s
susceptibility to
alcohol) I have very poor ….

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and unhappy brains for drinking

31
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(Iago’s jovial

manipulation) “What, man…

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tis a night of revels: the gallants desire it

32
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(Iago’s scheming) He’ll be as full of quarrel and offence…

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Now, mongst this

flock of drunkards, Am I to put our Cassio in some action

33
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(Iago’s convivial

temptation) Song

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“And let me the canakin clink, clink; And let me the canakin clink A soldier’s a man; A life’s but a span; Why, then, let a soldier drink.
Some wine, boys!”

34
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(Iago’s sporting

rivalry) I learned it [the drinking song] in England, where, indeed,….

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they are most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander–Drink, ho!–are nothing
to your English.

35
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(Cassio’s crapulence) Ay, but, by your leave, not before me…

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the lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient

36
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(Cassio’s crapulence) sins!–Gentlemen, let’s look to our business…

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Do not think, gentlemen. I am drunk: this is my ancient; this is my right
hand, and this is my left: I am not drunk now; I can stand well enough,
and speak well enough.”

37
Q

(Iago slanders

Cassio to Montano) Tis [heavy drinking]…

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evermore the prologue to his sleep

38
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(Iago’s duplicity) Not I, for this fair island…

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I do love Cassio well; and would do much To cure him of this evil

39
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(Cassio’s drunken

rage) “Zounds, you rogue, you rascal….

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rascal…let me go, sir, or I’ll knock you o’er the mazzard

40
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(Othello’s Christian

virtue) “Are we turn’d Turks, and to ourselves do that Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites…..

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For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl

41
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(Iago’s duplicity /

Othello’s trust) “Honest Iago, that look’st…..

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dead with grieving

42
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(Othello’s quick

temper / volatility) Now, by heaven, My blood begins….

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my safer guides to rule; And passion, having my best judgment collied”

43
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(Othello’s trust in

Iago) “I know, Iago…

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Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter, Making it light to Cassio

44
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(Rashness) Cassio I love thee…

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Cassio, I love thee But never more be officer of mine

45
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(Humanity vs.

animality) “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O…

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I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial

46
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(Humanity vs.

animality) “O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains…

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that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts

47
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(Iago’s cynicism /

amorality) come, you …

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Come, you are too severe a moraller

48
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(Othello’s love
for Desdemona is
affecting his self-
control) “Our general’s wife…

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is now the general

49
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(Iago on Desdemona’s

kindness of heart) she is of so free, so kind, so apt….

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so blessed a disposition, she holds it a

vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested

50
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(Iago’s malice)“Divinity of hell…

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When devils will the blackest sins put on,

They do suggest at first with heavenly shows, As I do now

51
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(Iago’s

manipulation) “I’ll pour this….

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pestilence into his ear

52
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(Iago’s manipulation) She shall undo her credit with the Moor…

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So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her

own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all

53
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(Iago’s scheming) “Two things are to be done….

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My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress

54
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(Iago’s scheming) I’ll set her on…

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Myself the while to draw the Moor apart,

And bring him jump when he may Cassio find Soliciting his wife

55
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(Iago’s

improvisation) “ay, that’s the way….

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Dull not device by coldness and delay

56
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(Iago’s exploitation

of Roderigo) “My money is almost spent;

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I have been to-night exceedingly well

cudgelled

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