Othello Quotes Flashcards
Jealousy
“Mere prattle w/o practice”
“Like a poisonous mineral knawing at my inwards”
“Green eyed monster” - “mock the meat it feed on”
“Dangerous conceits are their natures poisons”
Semantic field of warfare “plumed troops” “royal banner” - so jealous no longer care about mili career
Handkerchief - shows effects of jealousy
“A horned man’s a monster and a beast”
Race
“Thick lips” “Thing” “Sooty bosom”
“An old black ram is tupping your white ewe”
“Enchanted” “chains of magic” “foul charms”
“He bade me tell it” - fetizisation of the exotic
“For she had eyes and she chose me”
“How nature erring from itself”
“Against all rules of nature”
“O, the more angle she / And you the blacker devil”
Desdemona & Othello’s love
“Against all rules of nature”
“She loved me for the dangers I have pass’d / And I loved that she did pity them”
“I crave fit disposition for my wife”
“That I loved the moor to live with him”
“If after every tempest come such calms”
“If I do die b4 thee, printed shroud me/ In one of those same sheets”
“I will kill thee & love thee after”
“My wife, my wife! What wife? I have no wife”
Relationship breakdown
“But I do love thee and when I love thee not / Chaos come again”
“Dotes yet doubts”
“I’ll tear her all to pieces”
“I would have him nine years a-killing. A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman”
Control
“Our general’s wife is now general”
“If I do prove her haggard” - bird that has gone wild after being trained “her Jesse’s were my dear heart strings”
“Get thee to bed” “He hath commanded me to go to bed” “dismiss” = repeated
“But I do think its their husbands’ faults”
Honour
“Let him do his spite”
“Rude am I in my speech”
“I warrant her full of game”
“She is most fresh delicate creature”
“He stabs himself”
Status
“Reputation, reputation, reputation,”
“Who steals my purse steals trash”
“Jewel of their souls” “Not enriches him”
Female Value
“He has achieved a maid” “The divine Des”
“The riches of the ship” E = “mistress”
“If I do prove her haggard”
“My most fair Bianca” “Go to woman”
“Bauble” “perfumed one”
“Delicate with her needle an admirable musician”
Female Power
“Abus’d her delicate youth w/ drugs or minerals”
“Blush’d at herself” “Send for the lady”
“She gave me for my pains a world of sighs”
“Divided duty” “I have not deserved this”
“Our generals wife is now general”
“O fie upon thee strumpet”
“Yet she must die else she’ll betray more men”
“A guiltless death I die” “Nobody I myself farewell”
“I care not for the sword” “I will speak as liberal as the North”
“Kill me not” “kill me tmwr” “but half an hour”
Women as Property
“Thou stow’d my daughter” “To hang clogs on them”
“The purchase made the fruits are to ensue”
“That profits yet to come between me and you”
“He hath achieved a maid”
“The riches of the ship”
Insecurity
“If thou hast eyes to see / she has deceived her father and may thee”
“Bear your fortune like a man”
Men
“Captain’s captain”
“Burn like the mines of sulphur” - male violence - I
“They are all bit stomachs and we all but food / they eat us hungrily and when they full / the belch us”
“Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell / And have their palates both for sweet and sour”
Evil
Repetition of “think” and “know”
I suggests O “strangle” D
“From this time forth I will never speak again”
Anger
O calls D back and then asks L what he wants = cruel and shows the depth of his anger - repetition of “turn” suggests is Janice faced
“I should make very forges of my cheeks / That would to cinders burn up my modesty”
Venice
Estab as calm & peaceful place = high culture & status
