Othello Reputation Flashcards
Reputation necessary for employment and social standing
“Preferment goes by letter and affection/and not by old gradation”
Reputation as the product of action
“My parts, my title, and my perfect soul/shall manifest me rightly”
Othello’s high reputation
“Valiant Othello”
Iago’s reputation
“Honest Iago”
Reputation as deceptive
“The Moor is of a free and open nature/that thinks men honest that but seem to be so”
Reputation as a sign of worth
“What’s the matter/that you unlace your reputation thus/and spend your rich opinion for the name/of a night brawler”
Reputation as divine
“I have lost the immortal part of/myself and what remains is bestial”
Reputation as malleable
“Reputation is an idle/most false imposition, oft got without merit/and lost without deserving”
Reputation as enfuriating
“Men should be what they seem/or those that be not, would they might seem none!”
Reputation reflecting worth
“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord/is the immediate jewel of their souls”
Attacking reputation is spiteful
“But he that filches from me my good name/robs me of that which not enriches him/and makes me poor indeed”
The importance of reputation in Venice
“My lord, this would not be believed in Venice”
Reputation of women as whores/ dictated by men
“I took you for that cunning whore of Venice”
Honesty as reputation
“An honest man he is, and hates the slime/that sticks on filthy deeds”
Personality built around reputation
“That’s he that was Othello; here I am”
