Othello quotes Act 2 Flashcards
quotes from D’s banter with I A2S1
Alas! she has no speech.
O, fie upon thee slanderer!
what wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst praise me
quotes from I being sexist towards his wife A2S1
would she give you so much of her lips as of her tongue … you’d have enough
In faith, too much! (speech)
wild-cats in your kitchen
housewives in… your beds!
you rise to play and go to bed to work
Key quotes from Iago’s soliloquy A2S1
The moor… is of a constant, loving, noble nature
a most dear husband
but partly led to diet my revenge
doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards
evened with him, wife for wife
a jealousy so strong that judgement cannot cure
making him egregiously an ass
knavery’s plain face is never seen till used
D and O together at the start of Cyprus A2S1
O, my fair warrior!
My dear Othello
our loves and comforts should increase
amen to that sweet powers!
the greatest discords be that e’er our hearts shall make
Key quotes from I manipulating R in A2S1
(her love for O are..) but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies
will she love him still for pratting?
shall she have to look on the devil?
delicate tenderness shall find itself abused
very nature will instruct her…
her eye must be fed
Othello’s key quotes from the fight A2S3
for Christian shame
barbarous brawl
honest Iago…who began this? on thy love I charge thee
passion, having my best judgement collied the best of you shall sink in my rebuke give me to know how this foul rout begun to manage private and domestic quarrels?
thy honesty and love doth mince this matter
Cassio I love thee but never more be an officer of mine
look if my gentle love be not raised up!
Iago’s key quotes from the fight? A2S3
I shall rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offence to MC
I persuade myself
violent imagery= determined sword, fall of swords, blow and thrust, strike
repeats Cassio’s name to suggest he is guilty
key Cassio quotes from the aftermath of the fight A2S3
reputation, reputation, reputation!
squabble? swagger? swear?= sibilance to show spite and frustration- self hatred
transform ourselves into beasts
that men should put enemies in their mouths, to steal away their brains!
Key Iago quotes from the aftermath if the fight
As I am an honest man
I think you think I love you
the general’s wife is now the general
contemplation, mark and denotement of her parts and graces
in the sincerity of love and honest kindness= duplicitous = fake
key quotes from Iago’s soliloquy A2S3
this advice is free I give and honest
D biblical imagery= free elements, baptism, play the god, divinity of hell, when devils with their blackest sins put on they do suggest at first with heavenly shows
I’ll pour pestilence into his ear
