OTHELLO - Rashness and irrational thinking Flashcards
Cassio’s dismissal
«Never more be officer of mine»
Passion (2)
My blood begins my safer guides to rule
Waked wrath
Threatening general)
«If I stir or do but lift this arm, the best of you shall sink in my rebuke»
Iago’s manipulation causing overwhelming emotion
»I swear it’s better to be much abused than to know but a little»
Iago’s comment about his irrationality
«I see sir, you are eaten up by passion»
Profs of rationality before
»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»
Proof of irrationality
«O, monstrous, monstrous!»
«Death and damnation!»
«I’ll tear her all to pieces!»
Hyperbole
«O that the slave had forty thousand lives! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.»
Desdemona’s love gone
«All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven… tis gone»
Cassio killing
»within these three days let me hear thee say Cassio’s not alive»
Desdemona recognizes Othello’s rashness
«Why do you speak so startlingly rash?»
«Some bloody passion shakes your very frame»
Emilia’s perception of Othello’s rashness
«Thou art rash as fire»
Quick change in Desdemona perception
«a fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman» «ay, let her perish!»
Delusion
»now he tells [him] how she plucked him to my chamber»
Impatience
prithee no more
