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Othello's
Deterioration
- Eloquent, honourable and
sophisticated
- Defies Iago's characterisation
as barbaric, heathen and
uncivilised
- "Most potent, grave
and reverend
signiors, my very
noble and approved
good masters"
- Caring, loving husband
to Desdemona
- "Let her have your voice"
- Unusual to give a
woman a mans
power
- "I love the gentle
Desdemona"
- Public
declaration of
love
- "Were i to die now i
would die happy"
- "Excellent wretch!"
- Negative towards
Desdemona yet
admiring
- Whore
- Become jealous of
Cassio and
Desdemona
- Undermined by
Iago's trickery of
words
- "Give me ocular proof"
- He loves her so wants
the proof
- Othello's jealousy
begins to overlook
common sense
- Believes Iago's lies
and manipulation
- Full of jealousy
and rage
- First mention Iago
as a villain
- "Down strumpet!"
- Whore
- "Being done there is no pause"
- He must do it now
- "Put out the light and then
put out the light"
- Pun
- Put out the physical light
- Doesn't want to take ownership
for his actions
- Put out the light of her life
- Light has
connotations to
pure, angel
- Language
- Mimicking Iago
- Animal and
hunting imagery
- Reflects the lower class
- Begins eloquent and
sophisticated
- Final speech
- Tragic hero must have
their final speech
- Language is pretty but
not eloquent
- Wants to be
remembered as
he is
- "Speak of me as i am"
- Doesn't want his military service and
achievements being forgotten