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Othello quotes and themes: Act 1 key passages
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- 1IAGO: Awake! What ho, Brabantio! Thieves, thieves! Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags!> Unmarried daughter, Desdemona is considered her father's property
> Iago suggests that Othello has stolen her from Brabantio - 2BRABANTIO: A maiden never bold, of spirit so still and quiet that her motion, blushed at herself: and she, in spite of nature, of years, of country, credit, everything> She is so timid and subdued that even is she moves she is embarrassed and blushes
> She conforms to gender roles of the time - 3IAGO: You are pictures out of doors, bells in your parlours, wild-cats in your kitchens...and housewives in you bed!> Saying Women are fake, they lie
>Women are manipulative and cunning - 4IAGO: Sir, would she give you so much of her lips, as of her tounge she oft bestows on me, you would have enough> Emilia is always nagging him
> Disrespectful - talking about her in a derogatory manner and like she wasn't there - 5DESDEMONA: My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education... You are lord of all my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband> She belongs to her father
> But now she is married she belongs to Othello
> Women are always a possession of men - 6IAGO: In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks they dare not show their hsubands> Saying all women cheat and deceive their husbands
- 7CASSIO: She's a most exquisite lady / IAGO: And, i'll warrant her, full of game> Cassio views her as precious and on a pedestal
> Iago views her as a sexual object - 8BRABANTIO: Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.> Brabantio perpetuates a stereotype of young women
> He suggests that since Desdemona has "deceived her father" she'll probably "deceive" her new husband too - 9IAGO: Now will I question Cassio of Bianca, A huswife that by selling her desires Buys herself bread and clothes. It is a creature That dotes on Cassio—as 'tis the strumpet's plague
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