Othello quotes Flashcards
Quotes to show Othello is a man of honour and dignity, demanding to be respected for his background and past deeds?
“My services which I have done the Signiory / Shall out-tongue his complaints”
Quotes about Othello which show he is a victim of racial prejudice
“the moor”
“the devil”
“Barbary horse”
Quotes to show that Othello begins the play a confident self-assured man who’s desires are to live a content life with Desdemona?
“If it were now to die / Twere now to be most happy”
What is Othello’s weakness allowing him to be exploited by Iago?
He absorbs racist, sexist and jealous attitudes
When does Othello begin to despise himself - making him insecure and jealous?
When he buys into the absurd idea that his race inherently makes him dangerous and sees himself through societies eyes
Quotes to show Othello’s adherence to his stereotype
“whore”
“villainous”
Why is the fact that Othello uses vulgarities to describe his wife important?
It demonstrates his deterioration as a “noble” general, becoming more and more characterised like a “moor”
What happens during the end of the play for Othello?
He becomes dangerously impulsive
Quote which reveals Othello’s charismatic and impressively articulate persona
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her that she did pity them”
Quote which reveals Othello’s myopia
I know, Iago
Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter
