Othello

Othello

1. Race

   • Weakness
     • 'begrimed and black as mine own face'
     • 'Your son in law is more fair than black'
     • 'how nature erring from itself'
   • Oppression
     • 'Arise black vengeance from thy hollow cell'
     • 'corrupted by spells and medicines bought off mountebanks'

2. Reputation

   • Jealousy
     • 'a great arithmetician...a Florentine...mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership'
   • Power
     • 'I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial'
     • 'The immediate jewel of their souls'
   • Class
     • 'Rude am I in my speech, and little blest with the soft phrase of peace'
     • 'I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.'
   • Politics
     • 'and your name is great...that you unlace your reputation thus'
     • 'a maid so tender, fair and happy, so opposite to marriage that she shunned the wealthy curled darlings of our nation'
     • "O treason of the blood!'

3. Love

   • Relationships
     • 'My life upon her faith!'
     • 'My heart's subdued even to the very quality of my lord'
   • Sex & Promiscuity
     • 'to lip a wanton in a secure couch, and to suppose her chaste'
     • 'use Desdemona well'

4. Gender

   • Women
     • 'A maid so tender, fair, and happy'
     • 'Strumpet'
     • 'Supersubtle Venetians'
     • 'She was a charmer...subdue my father entirely to her love'
     • 'Yet we have some revenge'
     • 'Let husbands know their wives have sense like them'
   • Men
     • 'But I do think it is their husband's fault if their wives do fall'
     • 'Men should be what they seem'
     • 'A Florentine so kind and honest'
     • 'I saw Othello's visage in his mind'
     • 'But men are men, the best sometimes forget'
     • 'Men are not Gods'
   • Sex & Promiscuity
     • 'Look to her, Moor,...she has deceived her father, and may thee'
     • 'Look to your wife. Observe her well with Cassio. She did deceiver her father, marrying you.'
     • 'With a greedy ear devour up my disourse'
     • 'Whore'

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