Othello, Shakespeare

Othello, Shakespeare

1. family love

   • look to your house, daughter and your bags!
   • fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds
   • stow'd my daughter
   • but here's to my husband and so much duty as my mother show'd to you, preferring you before her father
   • divided duty

2. Pragmatic love

   • Emelia: 'who would not make her husband a cuckhold, to make him a monarch?
   • palates sweet and sour
   • but i do think it is their husband's faults if wives do fall

3. lustful

   • beast with two backs
   • old black ruam is topping your white ewe
   • have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse
   • boarded a land carrack

4. Maritial love

   • 'i love the gentle Desdemona
   • she loved me for the dangers I had passed and i loved her, that she did pity them'
   • most happy; for I fear my soul hath her content so absolute
   • The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue: that profit's yet to come 'tween me and you'
   • excellent wretch!..And when I love thee not, Chaos is come again'
   • i gave her such a one" 'twas my first gift
   • i won his daughter
   • tell my story.. and that would woo her

5. destructive nature of love

   • jealousy
     • As if there were some monster in his thought too hideous to be shown
     • green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on
     • yet she must die, else she'll betray more men
   • prove my love a whore
   • revenge
     • all my fond love thus do i blow to heaven 'tis gone
   • Iago makes up that Desdemona says 'Cursed fate taht gave thee to the Moor' to Cassio (virginity)
   • that handkerchief which i so loved and gave thee thou gav'st to Cassio

6. unequal love

   • they are all but stomachs, and we all but food
   • eat us hungerly and when they are full they belch us

7. idealistic

   • monumental alabaster
   • nor scar whiter skin than snow
   • pluck a rose
   • eclipse of sun and moon, and that th'affrighted globe shown yawn at alteration
   • base indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe

8. unconditional love

   • what fancy's this?
   • I never gave him cause
   • Am I the motive of these tears my lord?
   • killing myself to kill upon a kiss

9. erotic love

   • thou hast enchanted her...chains of magic