Othello Quotes Flashcards
Iago:
I know my price: I am worth no worse a place
He is stating that he is worthy to be Othello’s deputy
Iago:
Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership
Iago is stating that Cassio is all talk, he has no practice as a soldier. Most of his knoweledge is not from war, it is from books. “Forsooth, a great arithmetician”
Iago:
I am not what I am
He is stating that he is not to be trusted “were I the moor, I would not be Iago”. He is stating that he would not trust himself if he were in Othello’s position.
Iago:
I must show out a flag and sign of love, which is indeed but a sign
Iago is telling us that he must act like he is on Othello’s side but it is all an act. Secretly he is against Othello.
Othello:
For know, Iago, but that I love the gentle Desdemona, I would not my unhoused free condition, put into circumscription and confine for the sea’s worth.
Know this Iago, I love Desdemona. I would not have given up my llife as a free single bachelor if it were not for the real deal.
Othello:
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust ém;
Put your swords away, they will rust from the air rather then wear from blood and fighting. In other words Othello is stating that no fighting will take place.. He tells Brabantio ‘Good Signior, you shall more command with years than with your weapons’. You will earn more respect with your age than with your battle skills.
Brabantio:
I therefore apprehend and do attach thee for an abuser of the world, a practiser of arts inhibited and out of warrant
Brabantio wants Othello arrested, he believes Othello is corrupting society with illegal and forbidden witchcraft
Othello:
A man he is of honesty and trust
Othello is saying how Iago is honest and can be trusted. Irony is displayed here as Iago is lying and deceitful
Iago:
I hate the Moor
Iago is stating that he hates Othello
Iago:
I have’t. It is endangered. Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the worlds light.
Over the next few days his plan will be unravelled
Othello:
She loved me for the dangers I had pass’d and I loved her for that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have us’d
She loved listening to my stories. I loved how she cared to listen. This is the only witchcraft I have used
Brabantio:
Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see, she has deceived her father and may thee.
Brabantio is warning Othello that if Desdemona could lie to her father, she could lie to Othello too.
Othello:
My life upon her faith. Honest Iago, My Desdemona must I leave to thee;
Othello is expressing his total trust in Desdemona being faithful whereat the same time he is expressing his trust in Iago’s honesty. Irony in this is shown as Desdemona is faithful to Othello throughout the play.
Iago:
“Thick lips”
Describing othello, meant as an insult. ‘Thick lips”characteristic of a black person.
Iago:
I had thought to have yerk’d him here,under the ribs.
Iago is telling Othello how he thought of stabbing Roderigo under the ribs for how badly hes poke of him.
Duke:
Though our proper son stood in your action
The duke is stating that he would kill whoever it was that had taken Desdemona from Brabantio even if it were his son. He back tracks upon hearing it was Othello “say it Othello”.
Brabantio:
“This Moore”
Referring to Othello, derogatory or offensive. As if he is referring to an object or an outcast of society rather than one of his equivalents.
The general so likes your music that he desires you, for love’s sake, to make no more noise with it
Stop playing instruments
Clown- Cassio
