OTHELLO - Rashness and irrational thinking Flashcards

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Cassio’s dismissal

A

«Never more be officer of mine»

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2
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Passion (2)

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My blood begins my safer guides to rule

Waked wrath

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3
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Threatening general)

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«If I stir or do but lift this arm, the best of you shall sink in my rebuke»

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4
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Iago’s manipulation causing overwhelming emotion

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»I swear it’s better to be much abused than to know but a little»

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5
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Iago’s comment about his irrationality

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«I see sir, you are eaten up by passion»

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Profs of rationality before

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»Where will you that I go to answer your charge?»
«Hold your hands […] both you of my inclining and the rest»
«Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them»

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7
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Proof of irrationality

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«O, monstrous, monstrous!»
«Death and damnation!»
«I’ll tear her all to pieces!»

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8
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Hyperbole

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«O that the slave had forty thousand lives! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.»

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9
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Desdemona’s love gone

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«All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven… tis gone»

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10
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Cassio killing

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»within these three days let me hear thee say Cassio’s not alive»

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Desdemona recognizes Othello’s rashness

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«Why do you speak so startlingly rash?»
«Some bloody passion shakes your very frame»

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12
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Emilia’s perception of Othello’s rashness

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«Thou art rash as fire»

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13
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Quick change in Desdemona perception

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«a fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman» «ay, let her perish!»

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14
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Delusion

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»now he tells [him] how she plucked him to my chamber»

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15
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Impatience

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prithee no more

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