othello- themes Flashcards
jealousy- Iago’s motivation
“i know my price, i am worth no worse a place”
“mere prattle without practice”, “an arithmetician”, “a florentine”
“twixt my sheets he has done my office”, “i know not ift be true”
“i hate the moor”
“i fear cassio with my nightcap too”
leads to his plan to seek revenge in solliloquys- “this monstrous birth to the world’s light”, “he will be led by the nose as asses are”- exploiting Othello’s “free and open nature”
“work on my medicine, work! thus credulous fools are caught, and many worthy and chaste dames even thus, all guiltless, meet reproach”
“till i am evened with him, wife for wife”
jealousy- powerful cause of turmoil, changes people
“ill see before i doubt”, “give me ocular proof”, “if she be false then heaven mocks itself”, “tis not to make me jealous to say my wife is fair, enjoys company, is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well” - sees clearly, rational (II iii part 1)
“the moor already changes with my poison”, “thou has put me on the rack”, “i took you for that cunning whore that married with othello” (part 2)
“beware, my lord of jealousy, tis the green eyed monster which mocks the meat it feeds on”, “they are not ever jealous for the cause. but jealous because they are jealous. it is a monster begot upon itself. born upon itself”
“trifles light as air, are to the jealous conformations strong, as proofs of holy writ”
^ correct- othello rejects the stereotypes of charms and spells, yet when Des loses handkerchief, “there’s magic in the web of it”
“is this the noble moor whom our full senate call all in all sufficient, whose solid virtue passion could not shake”
jealousy- bianca
“some minx’s token”, “give it your hobbyhorse”, “this is some token from a newer friend”
“throw your vile guesses in the devils teeth from whence you have them”, “you are jealous now, that this is from some mistress”
jealousy- an illness
“a jealousy so strong that judgement cannot cure”
“work on my poison, work on!”
deception- iago’s manipulation
“put money in thy purse” “thus do i ever make my fool my purse” - roderigo
“the gallants desire it” “she is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested” “you advise me well”- cassio
“i cannot think it that he would steal away so guiltylike seeing your coming”, “think, my lord?”, “thou echost me as if there were some monster in thy thought” - othello, insinuations
deception- othello of himself
“she must die, else she’ll betray more men”, “justice to break her sword”, “murder that i thought a sacrifice”, “it is the cause, it is the cause”,
