Othello Quotes Flashcards
potent, grave and reverend
“Most potent, grave and reverend signiors, my very noble and approved good masters,”
sun where he was born, humours
“I think the sun where he was born drew all such humours from him.”
venomous rage, rocked, mere fact (Kiernan Ryan, 2016)
Othello and Desdemona find unleashed upon them, in the shape of Iago, the venomous rage of a society whose foundations are rocked by the mere fact of their marriage.
begrimed and black, mine own face
Her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face.
your house, your daughter, your bags, deceived father, may thee
“Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags!” “She has deceived her father and may thee.”
virtue into pitch, her own goodness, enmesh them all
So will I turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all
bait, insecurities, already questioned marriage
“By framing Desdemona, Iago makes her bait, as he knows that Othello’s emphasis on honesty and his insecurities in an already questioned marriage, will push him to take that bait.” - Jackie Chirco (2021)
nobody blame him, scorn i approve
“Let nobody blame him; his scorn I approve-”
my poison, dangerous conceits
The Moor already changes with my poison: Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons,
what they seem, those that be not
“Men should be what they seem; or those that be not, would they might seem none!”
iago as a force of trauma, other psychic qualities + obliterated
“Iago’s allegorical status, in other words can be interpreted as representing a distillation of the force of trauma in which other psychic qualities have been obliterated. Barbara Shapiro
your own, for ever
“I am your own for ever.”
BP1
potent, sun, venemous rage (KR 1016), begrimed
BP2
your house, virtue, bait + insecurities (JC 2021), approve
BP3
my poison, what they seem, obliterated (BS), your own
