Quotes Flashcards
“That you, Iago, who has had my purse/ As if the strings were thine”
Roderigo
Act 1 Scene 1
First dialogue
Immediate understanding of Iago’s character
“I follow him to serve my turn upon him”
Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Plot against him
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
Already states his position
“I am not what I am”
Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Transparency
Play’s deceptive and conflicting themes
“‘Sblood”
Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
First thing he says
Shows class
“thick-lips”
Roderigo
Act 1 Scene 1
Othello
Racial slur
“Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags./ Thieves! thieves!”
Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Possessions
Objectification
“Zounds”
Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Class
“you have lost half your soul”
Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Link to Song of Achilles
“an old black ram/ Is tapping your white ewe”
Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Race
Age
Animal imagery
“Barbary horse”
Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Animal imagery
“Thou art a villain”
Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 1
Dramatic irony
“O treason of the blood”
Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 1
Goes against him
“I love the gentle Desdemona”
Othello
Act 1 Scene 2
First mention of her name
Declaration of his current feelings
“My parts, my title, and my perfect soul”
Othello
Act 1 Scene 2
Pride
Highlights insecurity later
“Valiant Othello”
Duke
Act 1 Scene 3
His position
Respect
“I won his daughter”
Othello
Act 1 Scene 3
A trophy
Objectification
“A maiden never bold”
Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 3
Doesn’t know her well
Untrue
“Let me go with him”
Desdemona
Act 1 Scene 3
Her assertiveness
Loyalty
“A man he is of honesty and trust”
Othello
Act 1 Scene 3
Dramatic irony
“Put money in thy purse”
Iago
Act 1 Scene 3
Put your trust in me
Repeated
Manipulative
“I hate the Moor”
Iago
Act 1 Scene 3
Transparent
“warlike Moor Othello”
3 gentleman
Act 2 Scene 1
“brave Othello”
Montano
Act 2 Scene 1
“Our great Captain’s Captain”
Cassio
Act 2 Scene 1
Desdemona’s power over Othello
“my fair warrior”
Othello
Act 2 Scene 1
Feminine power
“If it were now to die,/ ‘Twere now to be most happy”
Othello
Act 2 Scene 1
Dramatic irony
“that our loves and comforts should increase/ Even as our days do grow!”
Desdemona
Act 2 Scene 1
Ironic
Foreshadowing
“sweet powers”
Othello
Act 2 Scene 1
Feminine power
“As honest as I am”
Iago
Act 2 Scene 1
Irony
Facade
“wife for wife”
Iago
Act 2 Scene 1
Toxic masculinity
“Our General’s wife is now the General”
Iago
Act 2 Scene 3
Desdemona’s power
“out of her own goodness make the net/ That shall enmesh them all”
Iago
Act 2 Scene 3
Uses her goodness against her
“I will deny thee nothing”
Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
Desdemona’s power over him
“But I do love thee; and when I love thee not/Chaos is come again”
Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
Foreshadowing
“O, beware, my Lord, of jealousy;/It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on”
Iago
Act3 Scene 3
Ironic
Jealousy
Foreshadowing
“For she had eyes, and chose me”
Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
Underlying Insecurities
“I’ll see before I doubt”
Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
Ironic
Needs proof
However never asks or believes her
“She did deceive her father, marrying you”
Iago
Act 3 Scene 3
Spinning
Manipulating
“O curse of marriage,/That we can call these delicate creatures ours,/And not their appetites”
Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
Swift change
Villianising female sexuality
“Damn her, lewd minx”
Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
Complete contrast with start of scene
“made of no such baseness/As jealous creatures are”
Desdemona
Act 3 Scene 4
Believes him to smart or good to be jealous
Thinks highly of him
“Zounds”
Othello
Act 3 Scene 3 and 4
Imitating Iago’s speech
“They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;/They eat us hungrily, and when they are full,/They belch us”
Emilia
Act 3 Scene 4
Comments on women being used as sexual objects
“My lord is not my lord”
Desdemona
Act 3 Scene 4
She can sense him changing
“Breaks out to savage madness”
Iago
Act 4 Scene 1
Animalistic and primitive characterisation
“Hang her! I do but say that she is: so delicate with her needle, an admirable musician”
Othello
Act 4 Scene 1
Conflict
“Devil! [Striking her.]”
Othello
Act 4 Scene 1
Savage characterisation
“I have not deserv’d this”
Desdemona
Act 4 Scene 1
Out spoken
Stands up for self
“she is honest,/Lay down my soul at stake”
Emilia
Act 4 Scene 2
Her unwavering loyalty
“You wife, my lord; your true and loyal wife”
Desdemona
Act 4 Scene 2
Constant and unwavering love and loyalty
Complete transparency
“Thou art false as hell”
Othello
Act 4 Scene 2
Religious language
Denies her after previous promise
“Whore”, “public commoner”, “impudent strumpet”, “ cunning whore of Venice”
Othello
Act 4 Scene 2
Debases her completely
“Let husbands know/Their wives have sense like them”
Emilia
Act 4 Scene 3
Comments on male superiority and double standards
“O brave Iago, honest and just”
Othello
Act 5 Scene 1
Ironic
Right after Iago stabs Cassio
“Thy bed, lust-stain’d, shall with lust’s blood be spotted”
Othello
Act 5 Scene 1
Marriage bed
“O inhuman dog!”
Roderigo
Act 5 Scene 1
Truth of Iago
‘Stabbed in the back’
“not she’d her blood,/Nor scar that whiter skin”
Othello
Act 5 Scene 2
Conflict
“A guiltless death I die”
Desdemona
Act 5 Scene 2
Reveals truth
“O, the more angel she,/ And you the blacker devil!”
Emilia
Act 5 Scene 2
Her standing against men
Assertive
“An honourable murderer, if you will;/For nought I did in hate, but all in honour”
Othello
Act 5 Scene 2
Doesn’t accept what he’s done
