othello quotes Flashcards

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1
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“she loved me for the dangers i passed, and i loved her that she did pity them. this is the only witchcraft I’ve used.”

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act 1, scene 3 (when brabantio accuses othello of using witchcraft to woo desdemona”

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“she gave me for my pains a world of sighs”

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act 1, scene 3 (explaining how he and desdemona fell in love”

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3
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“rude am i in my speech, and little blest with the soft phrases of peace”

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act 1, scene 3

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“my life upon her faith”

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act 1, scene 3 (in response to “she has decieved her father, she may thee”)

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5
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“o, my fair warrior!”

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act 2, scene 1 (greeting desdemona as they r reunited – desdemona says “my dear othello!” also, here is – hemistychomythia

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6
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“for christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl”

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act 2, scene 3

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7
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“your name is great in mouths of wisest censure… what’s the matter that you unlace your reputation thus?”

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act 2, scene 3

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8
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“for she had eyes and chose me.”

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act 3, scene 3 (still has faith in desdemona’s loyalty to him after iago suggests dedemona and cassio are fooling around)

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9
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“O, now, for ever farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content”.

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act 3, scene 3 (othello has fallen right into line with iago’s monstrous plan – here he now is concinced desdemona is sleeping with cassio)

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10
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“perdition catch my soul but i do love thee. and when i love thee not chaos is come again”

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act 3, scene 3

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11
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“dost thou say so?”

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act 3, scene 3

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12
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“and yet how nature, erring from itself”

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act 3, scene 3

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13
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“set on thy wife to observe”

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act 3, scene 3

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14
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“haply for i am black, and have not those soft parts of conversation… or for i am declined into the vale of years”

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act 3, scene 3

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15
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“we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!”

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act 3, scene 3

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16
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“othello’s occupation gone”

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act 3, scene 3

17
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“her name that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face”

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act 3, scene 3

18
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“o monstrous! monstrous!”

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act 3, scene 3

19
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“there’s magic in the web of it”

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act 3, scene 4