Quotes Flashcards
In Act 1 Scene 1, what racially offensive term does Roderigo label Othello?
He references him by ‘thick lips’
How does Iago equate the marriage of Othello and Desdemona to thievery in Act 1, Scene 1?
He shouts ‘Look to your house, your daughter and your bags! Thieves! Thieves!’
How does Iago use racist terms to brutalise the idea of sex between Othello and Desdemona to Brabantio in Act 1, Scene 1?
He describes how ‘An old black ram is tupping your white ewe’
In Act 1 Scene 1, how does Iago equate the act of sex between Othello and Desdemona to a monster?
He says to Brabantio that ‘Your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs’
How is Iago presented as an open Machiavellian villain in Act 1, Scene 1?
When Brabantio states ‘Thou art a villain’, he responds with ‘You are a senator’
In Act 1 Scene 2, how does Brabantio accuse Othello of his ability to ‘win’ Desdemona?
‘Thou hast practised on her with foul charms, abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals that weakens motion’
In Act 1 Scene 2, how is a patriarchal impression of the marriage of Desdemona and Othello created?
Othello states that he ‘won his daughter’
How does Othello give Desdemona a voice in the court scene of Act 1 Scene 3?
He states ‘Send for the lady.. and let her speak of me before her father’
How is the strength of Othello’s trust in Desdemona demonstrated in Act 1 Scene 3?
‘Let your sentence even fall upon my life’
How does Othello summarise the nature of his courtship of Desdemona in Act 1 Scene 3?
‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them’
How does Desdemona defy her father in Act 1 Scene 3?
‘You are Lord of all duty; but here’s my husband’
How does the patriarch Brabantio warn Othello of Desdemona’s defiant nature?
‘She has deceived her father, and may thee’
How does Othello put his trust in Desdemona in the end of Act 1 Scene 3?
He states ‘My life upon her faith’
What is Iago’s prominent epithet, given to him by Othello in Act 1 Scene 3?
‘Honest Iago’
How does Iago describe Desdemona in relation to Venice at the end of Act 1 Scene 3?
He calls her a ‘super-subtle Venetian’
In Iago’s soliloquy of Act 2 Scene 1, how does he describe his plan to frame Cassio?
‘With as little a web as this, I will ensnare as great a fly as Cassio’
In Act 2, Scene 1, how does Iago describe Emilia?
‘Sir, would she give you so much of her lips as her tongue she oft bestows on me, you would have enough’
How does Othello greet Desdemona in Act 2 Scene 1?
‘O, my fair warrior!’
In Act 2, Scene 3, what is Cassio most upset about following his removal from his lieutenant position?
‘Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!’
How does Shakespeare foreshadow Othello’s downfall in relation to Desdemona in Act 3 Scene 1?
Othello states to Desdemona ‘I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again’
How does Iago warn Othello of jealousy and create the leading theme of the play in Act 3 Scene 3?
He says ‘Beware, my Lord, of jealousy. It is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on’
How does Othello describe his deteriorating mental stability and happiness to Iago in Act 3 Scene 3?
He cries ‘Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content, farewell the plumed troops.. Farewell! Othello’s occupation gone!’
In Act 3, Scene 3, what does Othello describe as being lost to him as a result of Desdemona’s infidelity?
‘Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!’
How does Othello describe his wish to stay ignorant to Desdemona’s ‘infidelity’ to Iago in Act 3, Scene 3?
‘He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen’
In Act 3, Scene 3, how is Othello’s disgust as Desdemona’s infidelity expressed to Iago?
‘Her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now as begrimed and black as mine own face’
How does Shakespeare create the theme of witchcraft in Othello’s speech in Act 3, Scene 3?
‘Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!’
In Act 3, Scene 3, how does Othello bind himself to Iago in their ‘marriage’?
‘Now thou art my lieutenant, I am your own forever’
In Act 3, Scene 4, what proto-feminist attitude does Emilia display on women as disposable?
‘They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; they eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they belch us’
What stage direction does Shakespeare use for Othello in Act 4 Scene 1 to demonstrate him emulating Iago?
[Aside] repeated 4x
How does Othello describe the Desdemona he believed he married to Iago in Act 4 Scene 1?
‘A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman!’
How does Othello accuse Desdemona of infidelity and relate her actions to religion to incite fear in Act 4 Scene 2?
‘Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell’
How does Desdemona reiterate the marriage bond between her and Othello in Act 4 Scene 2 despite his changing attitudes?
‘If you have lost him, I have lost him too’
How does Shakespeare parallel Iago’s accusations of Desdemona’s status as a Venetian to emphasise Othello’s emulating his behaviour in Act 4 Scene 2?
Othello states :‘I cry you mercy then; I took you for that cunning whore of Venice that married Othello’
How does Emilia describe a protofeminist perspective on female infidelity in Act 4 Scene 3?
‘Nor I neither in this heavenly light; I might do’t as well i’th’dark’
In Act 4, Scene 3, how does Emilia address Jacobean cuckolding?
‘Who would not make her husband a cuckold, to make him a monarch? I should venture purgatory for’t?’
In Act 4, Scene 3, how does Emilia conclude her protofeminist speech and demonstrate an element of blame in the behaviours of the men of the novel?
‘And have we not affections, desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? Then let them use us well; else let them know the ills we do, their ills instruct us so’
How is the class divide and misogyny demonstrated in the interactions between Emilia and Bianca in Act 5 Scene 1?
Emilia shouts ‘Fie upon thee, strumpet!’ and Emilia responds ‘I am no strumpet, but of life as honest as you that thus abuse me’
How does Othello reference religion in his final attempts to offer Desdemona an element of redemption in Act 5 Scene 2?
He tells her he ‘would not kill thy unpreparèd spirit; I would not kill thy soul’
How does Othello reflect the misogynistic language of Iago in his killing of Desdemona in Act 5, Scene 2?
‘Out, strumpet!.. Down, strumpet!’
How does Shakespeare reiterate Othello’s role as the tragic hero of a revenge tragedy in Act 5 Scene 2?
‘Then murders out of tune, and sweet revenge grows harsh?’
How does Desdemona express her undying loyalty to Othello in her final words of the play?
‘Farewell, commend me to my kind lord. O, farewell!’
How does Othello complete his own tragic downfall through his quality of honesty in Act 5 Scene 2?
‘She’s like a liar gone to burning hell; twas I that killed her’
How does Shakespeare finalise Othello’s role as a tragic hero in the final moments of Act 5 Scene 2?
‘You must speak of one that loved not wisely, but too well; of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, perplexed in the extreme’
In Act 3, Scene 3, how does Othello relate the pain of heartbreak to physical anguish?
‘If I do prove her haggard, thou that her jesses were my dear heart strings’
