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1
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“That you, Iago, who has had my purse/ As if the strings were thine”

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Roderigo
Act 1 Scene 1
First dialogue
Immediate understanding of Iago’s character

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2
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“I follow him to serve my turn upon him”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Plot against him
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
Already states his position

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3
Q

“I am not what I am”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Transparency
Play’s deceptive and conflicting themes

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4
Q

“‘Sblood”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
First thing he says
Shows class

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5
Q

“thick-lips”

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Roderigo
Act 1 Scene 1
Othello
Racial slur

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6
Q

“Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags./ Thieves! thieves!”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Possessions
Objectification

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7
Q

“Zounds”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Class

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8
Q

“you have lost half your soul”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Link to Song of Achilles

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9
Q

“an old black ram/ Is tapping your white ewe”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Race
Age
Animal imagery

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10
Q

“Barbary horse”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Animal imagery

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11
Q

“Thou art a villain”

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Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 1
Dramatic irony

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12
Q

“O treason of the blood”

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Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 1
Goes against him

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13
Q

“I love the gentle Desdemona”

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Othello
Act 1 Scene 2
First mention of her name
Declaration of his current feelings

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14
Q

“My parts, my title, and my perfect soul”

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Othello
Act 1 Scene 2
Pride
Highlights insecurity later

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15
Q

“Valiant Othello”

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Duke
Act 1 Scene 3
His position
Respect

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16
Q

“I won his daughter”

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Othello
Act 1 Scene 3
A trophy
Objectification

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17
Q

“A maiden never bold”

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Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 3
Doesn’t know her well
Untrue

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18
Q

“Let me go with him”

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Desdemona
Act 1 Scene 3
Her assertiveness
Loyalty

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19
Q

“A man he is of honesty and trust”

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Othello
Act 1 Scene 3
Dramatic irony

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20
Q

“Put money in thy purse”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 3
Put your trust in me
Repeated
Manipulative

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21
Q

“I hate the Moor”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 3
Transparent

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22
Q

“warlike Moor Othello”

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3 gentleman
Act 2 Scene 1

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23
Q

“brave Othello”

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Montano
Act 2 Scene 1

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24
Q

“Our great Captain’s Captain”

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Cassio
Act 2 Scene 1
Desdemona’s power over Othello

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25
Q

“my fair warrior”

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Othello
Act 2 Scene 1
Feminine power

26
Q

“If it were now to die,/ ‘Twere now to be most happy”

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Othello
Act 2 Scene 1
Dramatic irony

27
Q

“that our loves and comforts should increase/ Even as our days do grow!”

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Desdemona
Act 2 Scene 1
Ironic
Foreshadowing

28
Q

“sweet powers”

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Othello
Act 2 Scene 1
Feminine power

29
Q

“As honest as I am”

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Iago
Act 2 Scene 1
Irony
Facade

30
Q

“wife for wife”

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Iago
Act 2 Scene 1
Toxic masculinity

31
Q

“Our General’s wife is now the General”

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Iago
Act 2 Scene 3
Desdemona’s power

32
Q

“out of her own goodness make the net/ That shall enmesh them all”

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Iago
Act 2 Scene 3
Uses her goodness against her

33
Q

“I will deny thee nothing”

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Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
Desdemona’s power over him

34
Q

“But I do love thee; and when I love thee not/Chaos is come again”

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Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
Foreshadowing

35
Q

“O, beware, my Lord, of jealousy;/It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on”

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Iago
Act3 Scene 3
Ironic
Jealousy
Foreshadowing

36
Q

“For she had eyes, and chose me”

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Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
Underlying Insecurities

37
Q

“I’ll see before I doubt”

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Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
Ironic
Needs proof
However never asks or believes her

38
Q

“She did deceive her father, marrying you”

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Iago
Act 3 Scene 3
Spinning
Manipulating

39
Q

“O curse of marriage,/That we can call these delicate creatures ours,/And not their appetites”

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Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
Swift change
Villianising female sexuality

40
Q

“Damn her, lewd minx”

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Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
Complete contrast with start of scene

41
Q

“made of no such baseness/As jealous creatures are”

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Desdemona
Act 3 Scene 4
Believes him to smart or good to be jealous
Thinks highly of him

42
Q

“Zounds”

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Othello
Act 3 Scene 3 and 4
Imitating Iago’s speech

43
Q

“They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;/They eat us hungrily, and when they are full,/They belch us”

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Emilia
Act 3 Scene 4
Comments on women being used as sexual objects

44
Q

“My lord is not my lord”

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Desdemona
Act 3 Scene 4
She can sense him changing

45
Q

“Breaks out to savage madness”

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Iago
Act 4 Scene 1
Animalistic and primitive characterisation

46
Q

“Hang her! I do but say that she is: so delicate with her needle, an admirable musician”

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Othello
Act 4 Scene 1
Conflict

47
Q

“Devil! [Striking her.]”

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Othello
Act 4 Scene 1
Savage characterisation

48
Q

“I have not deserv’d this”

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Desdemona
Act 4 Scene 1
Out spoken
Stands up for self

49
Q

“she is honest,/Lay down my soul at stake”

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Emilia
Act 4 Scene 2
Her unwavering loyalty

50
Q

“You wife, my lord; your true and loyal wife”

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Desdemona
Act 4 Scene 2
Constant and unwavering love and loyalty
Complete transparency

51
Q

“Thou art false as hell”

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Othello
Act 4 Scene 2
Religious language
Denies her after previous promise

52
Q

“Whore”, “public commoner”, “impudent strumpet”, “ cunning whore of Venice”

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Othello
Act 4 Scene 2
Debases her completely

53
Q

“Let husbands know/Their wives have sense like them”

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Emilia
Act 4 Scene 3
Comments on male superiority and double standards

54
Q

“O brave Iago, honest and just”

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Othello
Act 5 Scene 1
Ironic
Right after Iago stabs Cassio

55
Q

“Thy bed, lust-stain’d, shall with lust’s blood be spotted”

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Othello
Act 5 Scene 1
Marriage bed

56
Q

“O inhuman dog!”

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Roderigo
Act 5 Scene 1
Truth of Iago
‘Stabbed in the back’

57
Q

“not she’d her blood,/Nor scar that whiter skin”

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Othello
Act 5 Scene 2
Conflict

58
Q

“A guiltless death I die”

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Desdemona
Act 5 Scene 2
Reveals truth

59
Q

“O, the more angel she,/ And you the blacker devil!”

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Emilia
Act 5 Scene 2
Her standing against men
Assertive

60
Q

“An honourable murderer, if you will;/For nought I did in hate, but all in honour”

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Othello
Act 5 Scene 2
Doesn’t accept what he’s done

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