Othello

Othello

1. Appearance V.S. Reality

   • "lascivious"
     • "thick lips"
     • "Barbary horse"
   • "abus'd"
     • "charms"
   • "an old black ram tupping your white ewe"
     • "you will not serve God if the Devil bid you"
       • "in following him, I follow but myself"
         • "shows a flag and sign of love"
           • "by Janus"
             • "I'd rather have my tongue cut out than do offense"
               • "reputation is a false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving"
                 • "when devils will the blackest sins put on, they suggest at first with heavenly shows"
                   • "turn her virtue into pitch"
                     • "his own courses will denote him"
                   • "I have no judgement in an honest face"
                     • "Cassio errs in ignorance, not in cunning"
                     • "words and performances not akin together"
                       • "mettle"
                         • wit and judgement"
                       • "knock his brains out"
           • "mark the gibes, notable scorns"
             • "lethargy...quiet course"
               • "savage madness"
             • "needs no other suitor
               • "likes your music so much that he desires you to make no more noise with it"
               • "I cannot think he would steal away so guilty-like"
                 • light with weapons"
                   • thy bed, lust stained with lust's blood spotted"
                     • "inhuman dog"
                       • "damned:
         • "I follow him to serve my turn upon him"
           • "not all masters can be truly followed"
           • "love me,thank me, reward me
             • "never knew a Florentine so kind and honest"
             • "naked in bed, kissing in private"
               • "their virtues tempt heaven"
                 • "honour is an essence not seen"
                   • "error of the men that makes men mad"
                     • "nobody. I myself. Farewell"
                       • "I only told him what I thought and no more"
                         • "tis proper I obey him but not now"
                       • "no stones in heaven but what serve for thunder"
                 • "hangs lolls weeps"
                   • "bauble"
   • "lecherous"
     • "lust villainous thoughts"
       • "paddle"
         • "breaths embraced"
           • "did you not mark that?"
             • "courtesy"
   • "you were best go in"
     • "yerk'd him in the ribs"
       • "scurvy and provoking terms against your honour"
       • "a knave teach me my duty"
         • "lieutenant saved before the ancient"
           • "prologue to his sleep"
             • "unhappy brains for drinking"
   • "no composition in this news which gives them credit"
     • "false gaze"
       • "Burning Bear"
         • "ever-fixed pole"
         • "boat sails freely"
           • "tis pride that pulls the country down"

2. Jealousy

   • "I know my price"
     • "mere prattle without practice"
       • "bookish theoric"
         • "spinster"
         • "my fool, my purse"
           • "sport and profit"
   • "locusts">"coloquintida"
     • "abus'd Othello's ear"
       • "too familiar"
       • "free and open nature
   • "the wine she drinks is made of grapes"
     • "little web..ensnare a great fly like Cassio"
     • "well tun'd" > 'discord"
       • "pegs"
     • "knavery's plain face is never seen till used"
       • "he hath a daily beauty in his life .... make me ugly"
         • "every way makes my gain"

3. Manhood & Honour

   • "my parts, my title, my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly"
     • "I must be found"
     • "demerits
     • "services to state"
     • "out tongue"
     • "put up your swords for the dew will rust them"
   • "our wills are gardeners"
     • "reason.. to cool our raging motions, unbitted lusts, carnal stings"
       • "cause of my soul"
         • "she'll betray more men"
           • "put out the light"
             • "Promethean heat"
     • "tis within ourselves that we are thus or thus"
   • "stand well enough, speak well enough"
     • "our general's wife is now the general"
       • "wealthy curled darlings of our nation"
         • "own clime and complexion"
           • "jealousy is the green eyed monster who doth mocks the meat it feeds on"
             • "turn and turn
               • "crocodile tears"
                 • "painted passion"
                   • "fire and brimstone"
                     • "gulfs of liquid fire"
                       • "sulphur"
                 • "speak of me as I am"
                   • "threw his pearl away"
                   • "loved not wisely but too well"
               • "protectress of her honour"
                 • "handkerchief...confession...handkerchief"
         • "hobby horse"
         • "minx's token"
   • "they do let God see the pranks they dare not show their husbands"
     • "she did deceive her father marrying you"
       • "nor poppy nor mandragora shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
         • "prime as goats" "hot as monkeys"
         • "cuckold lives in bliss"
           • "black vengeance"
             • "hurl my soul from heaven"
               • "liar gone to burning hell"
           • "bloody thoughts"
           • "a horned man's a monster and a beast"
         • "dotes,doubts,suspects,loves"
           • "destiny unshunnable"
             • "plague"

4. Prejudice

   • "foul charms"
     • "chains of magic"
     • "bondslaves and pagan shall our statesman be"
   • "anthropophagi..heads beneath their shoulders"
     • "practices of cunning hell"
       • "feared to look upon"
   • "sun...drew all such humours"
     • "fruitfulness"
       • liberal of heart"

5. Womanhood + Sexuality

   • "land carack"
     • "sea's worth"
     • "delicate youth"
   • "gentle"
     • "never bold"
   • "greedy ear...devouring up my discourse"
     • "saw his visage in his mind"
       • "she has deceived her father and may thee"
         • "they are but stomachs and we are but food"
           • "belch us"
           • "our new heraldry is hands not heart"
           • "newer friend"
       • "guinea hen"
     • "divine"
       • "paragons wild fame"
         • "arms give renewed fire"
           • "los't of given away be such perdition"
             • "new fancies"
         • "you rise to play and go to bed to work"
           • "fair and wise, the one for use the other useth it
         • "Olympus high"
       • "eye alarum to love"
         • "full of game"
           • "newer friend"
             • "lock and key of villainous secrets"
               • "cunning whore of Venice"
               • "gate of hell"
                 • "be hang'd"
                 • "eternal villain"
                   • "trash"
                     • "why do you shake at that?"
                       • "pale"
                       • "gastness of his eye"
                       • "guiltiness will speak though tongues were out of use"
                       • "life as honest as you"
               • "abhor">"whore"
               • "salt tears softened stone"
                 • "he she lov'd prove mad"
                 • "if I couch with more women, you'll couch with more men"
                   • "dark"> "heavenly light"
                   • "great price for small vice"
                     • "venture purgatory"
                     • "husbands.. if wives do fall"
                   • "pour our treasures onto foreign laps"
                     • "strike"
                     • "this is the night that either makes me or fordoes me quite"
             • "weed"
               • "lovely,fair"
   • "nothing but to please his fantasy"
     • "Dian's visage"
       • "begrimed and black"