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Othello - Quotes - Act 2
Cards in this deck (22)
- 1"high-wrought flood" (1 Gentleman)Angry sea / storm foreshadowing
- 2"News lads ! Our wars are done: The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks" (3 Gentleman)Not going to war, Without war Othello has no purpose on relation to what Desdemona wants him to be
- 3"the man commands Like a full soldier" (Montano)Always positive perception of Othello as a soldier
- 4"Give him defence against the elements, For I have lost him on a dangerous sea" (Cassio)Concerned about life of Othello towards the storm
- 5"he hath achieved a maid That paragons description and wild fame" (Cassio)Courtly love / praise for Desdemona
- 6"exels the quirks of blazoning pens" (Cassio)Desdemona is perfect and excells all descrption
- 7"As having a sense of beauty do omit Their mortal natures, letting go safely by The divine Desdemona" (Cassio)Fertility, life, allitiration
- 8"That he may bless this bay with his tall ship" (Cassio)Power
- 9"The riches of the ship is come on shore! You men of Cyprus, let her have your knees. Hail to thee, lady!" (Cassio)Courtly love, commodities
- 10"good Iago" (Cassio)Irony
- 11"He kisses Emilia" (SD)Cassio kisssing Emilia, NO objectification from Emilia
- 12"Sir, would she give you so much of her lips As of her tongue she oft bestows on me"Misogny, speech and kiss, he tonue effects Iago at the end of the text
- 13"Nay, it is true, or else I am a Turk" (Iago)True otherwise I am your enemy
- 14"you shall not write my praise" (Emilia)Standing up for herself
- 15"If she be black, and thereto have a wit, She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit" (Othello)Ironic, Black and White Imagry
- 16"With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio" (Iago)His great scheme, fly and entrappment imagery
- 17"O, my fair warrior!" (Othello)Gives Desdemona power
- 18"Olympus - high and duck again as low" (Othello)ancient greek reference
- 19"If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy: for i fear My soul hath her content so absolute" (Othello)Hyperbolic speech
- 20"I'll set down the pegs that make this music, As honest as I am" (Iago)Puppet master Ironic
- 21"Let thy soul be instructed" (Iago)Puppet master
- 22"her eye must be fed. And what delight shall she have to look on the devil? When the blood is made dull"Negative speech, cassio is beautiful, smooth talking
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