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Othello quotations
Cards in this deck (19)
- 1THEMESN/a
- 2Honesty"I should be wise; for honesty's a fool and loses that it works for." "Pricked to't by foolish honesty and love"- dramatic irony as he is manipulating Othello
"I think my wife be honest and think she is not."
"My life upon her faith"
"Honest Iago" - 3The role of women"She never yet was foolish that was fair,
For even her folly helped her to an heir." - female beauty equated to intellect, appearance is all that matters and determines a woman's value as this means that she is more likely to attract a husband & produce children (fulfilling her role)
"You rise to play and go to bed to work" women's role is sexual - 4Women as property"Zounds, sir, you're robbed" robbed connotes the loss of brabantio's property
"Where has thou stowed my daughter?"
'He tonight hath boarded a land carrack'
'The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue. The profit's yet to come tween me and you' marriage is a transaction in which othello 'profits' with sex
'You are the lord of my duty. I am hitherto your daughter, but here's my husband' - 5Importance of appearance"i'll not shed her blood, nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, and smooth as monumental alabaster, but she must die" her beauty must not be tarnished, it is more important than her life
"For she had eyes, and chose me" not that important, not a factor
'if i can quench thee, thou flaming minister, i can thy former light restore' return to a state of just beauty, no concerns of personality - 6Race'Even now an old black ram is tupping your white ewe' animal imagery compares Othello to an animal, Desdemona also included
'Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs'
'The devil will make a grandsire out of you' satanic connotations of Othello
'You'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse' - 7Impacts of love'Then you must speak of one that loved not wisely but too well' love causes destruction
'Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul! But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, chaos is come again' loss of love is destructive
empty - 8Magic'Is there not charms By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?'
'thou hast practised on her with foul charms'
'O, blood, blood, blood!' - Act 3 Scene 3, convinced of her guilt. like a spell, number 3 - 9Othello's change'Never, Iago: Like to the Pontic sea,
Whose icy current and compulsive course
Ne'er feels retiring ebb' - storm between acts 1&2, sea is destructive, he believes he is unchanging
'My life upon her faith' - 10Othello & Iago's relationship'Kneels "In the due reverence of a sacred vow"
'Kneels "Witness, you ever-burning lights above"' - like a marriage, Othello is intensely trusting of Iago. Burning lights link to 'i can thy former light restore', suggesting that Othello wishes her to be as pure as he thinks Iago is - 11JealousyA destructive force
"it is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on" - 12Irony and duplicityd
Machiavellian Iago
- 'honest Iago' - 13Seeingf
Importance of seeing
'give me the ocular proof'
Seeing as knowing
'for she had eyes, and chose me' - 14Truth and liesg
- 'pricked to't by foolish honesty and love'
- 'i should be wise, for honesty's a fool that loses that it works for' - 15Susceptibility to deceptiond
'Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, chaos is come again' almost a curse. - 16Gender roles in marriagex
- 17Othello and Desdemona's relationshipSexual
'The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue, the profit's yet to come tween me and you' transaction
Desdemona is passive
'she loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them' - 18MadnessLoss of eloquence/descent
- change from blank verse to prose
- 'Devil!' 'Fire and brimstone!' 'O blood, blood, blood!'
Violence - [He strikes her] 'I'll chop her into messes' - 19Hubris- 'one that loved not wisely but too well'
- 'O villain!' 'O fool, fool, fool!'
- 'I took by th'throat the circumcised dog, And smote him - thus!' brings focus to his achievements, his suicide is a heroic military victory
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- AS - Level English Literature (Paper 1 (Love Through the Ages)) Flashcards on Othello quotations, created by Big Dave on 20/03/2017.
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- Big Dave · Mar 2017
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