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Important Othello quotes
Cards in this deck (18)
- 1"An old back ram"..."tupping your white ewe" "Beast with two backs" "Lascivious Moor"Animalistic imagery and references to race used to establish conflict
- 2"But that I love the gentle Desdemona" "My service which I have done the signiory/Shall out tongue his complaints"Before Othello proves his love to the council. Showing his love for her early on.
Confident his service and nobility to Venice will make him well. HUBRIS - 3"My parts, my title, and my perfect soul/ Shall manifest me rightly."MEGLOPSYCHIA
Implying Othello's greatness of soul early on. Audience know despite the racist comments he's a good character leading to be the tragic hero. - 4"Thou hast enchanted her"..."sooty bosom"..."practiced on her with foul charms"..."a practicer of arts inhibited" "Spells and medicines"Brabantio uses racist and witchcraft imagery to portray Othello. Creates suspicion within the audience.
- 5"Valiant Moor" "Valiant Othello"1st time Othello is names with respect. The Senator and the Duke don't notice Brabantio walk in also.
Audience can see that the council view Othello in high steed and respect - 6"Rude am I in speech"He's the opposite, being very modest, humble, poetic.
- 7"Send for the lady... let her speak of me before her father"Being noble, letting a woman speak for herself. Not taking it upon himself to speak for her.
Also shows confidence in their love, he knows she will tell as it is. - 8"Battles, sieges, fortunes that I have passed" "Sold to slavery"His backstory speech, shows HUBRIS and greatness of soul and we see him as a military commander.
Also encores pity on the reader as we sympathise that he's been a soldier all his life - 9"By his dear absence. Let me go with him."ERROR OF JUDGEMENT on Desdemona's behalf. If she stayed in Venice she would not have been a VICTIM
- 10"If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions."Iago showing he understands man and will power. FORESHADOWING Othello's downfall
- 11"I hate the Moor" "revenge against him"Learn early on Iago hates Othello, foreboding sense he's going to do something bad to him. Urges and persuasive to Roderigo to help him.
- 12"But for my sport and profit" "Twixt the sheets he's done my office" "Thinks men are honest" "Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the worlds light"MACHIOVELLE
hating for his own enjoyment.
Rumour of Othello sleeping with his wife.. just an excuse to be evil??
He needs hell to help fulfil his plan and bring it to day.
MOTIVELESS MALIGNITY- evil because he is, enjoys doing harm without a movie
The soliloquy dominates the Acts climax - 13"Wild cats in your kitchen...housewives in your bed"Iago is derogatory towards women. Contrasting Cassio in the scene as he is very chivalrous
- 14"With as little as a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio"Iago revels in Cassios attention to D-sees it as a way to ruin Cassion in his plan.
OPPERTUNIST - 15"If it were now to die, twere now to be most happy"Othello talking in grand scale, very hyperbolic.
Sad because this is the happiest he will be in the play - 16"Our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow"There love doesn't increase, foreboding
- 17"Desdemona is directly in love with him" ... "Her eye must be fed"Iago tells Roderigo D loves Cassio, explains she will get bored of the Moor and need someone else to keep her excited
- 18"Til I am evened with him, wife for wife" .. "Put the Moor into a jealousy so strong that judgment cannot cure"Seeking revenge as believes Cassio and Othello have slept with his wife.
Plan of jealousy is foreshadowed-Othello's tragic downfall and fatal flaw
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