The Tragic Hero: Othello

The Tragic Hero: Othello

1. 'My parts, my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly'

2. 'Set on thy wife to observe'

   • Othello is already paranoid and poisoned w Iago's thoughts

3. 'perdition catch my soul/chaos is come again'

   • foreshadowing the chaos that is to come

4. 'to be once in doubt/is once to be resolved'

5. 'black...declined/ into the vale of years'

   • Othello has lost his confidence
   • no longer feels adequate for Desdemona

6. 'I'll tear her all to pieces'

   • Othellos thoughts have become violent
   • Speaking like a villain of a Jacobean tragedy

7. 'kill thy unprepared spirit

   • Othello tells Desdemona to pray