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1 'These charms.. thy bed.. shall with lust's blood be spotted'
- A5,1
- B4,3
- CIn 4,3 Des puts on bed sheets.
- D"witchcraft that I have used"
- EDemotes their relationship to lust and Des' efforts to nothing
2'The moon winks'
- A4,2
- BSexual connotations - female chastity and fickleness.
- CPreviously mentions heaven; death
- DMoon is woman, so woman winks
3 'Let heaven require it with a serpent's curse'
- A4,2
- BIn Genesis 3, God curses the serpent's so it must crawl on it's belly and have its offspring eaten by Eve.
- CThere became an enmity between him and Eve and both worked against one another. The serpent blamed. FORESHADOWING.
- DThey are cursed.
- EThe Bible demands bad intentions.
- F1,3 - "Heaven defend your good souls"
4'Your thought doth abuse your bosom'
- A4,2
- BEmilia
- CDesdemona
- DHeart is the seed of thoughts and feelings and jealousy will grow.
- EBlack people stereotyped to be jealous and 7 deadly sins
- FHis mind and heart do not align
- GSexual connotations
5"The heavens forbid that our loves and comforts should increase even as our days do grow"
- AOthello
- BDesdemona
- C2,1
- D4,2
- ETragic irony
- FSexual connotations
6 "Threw away a pearl richer than all his tribe"
- A5,2
- BOthello
- CLodivico
- DPearl could signify lunar&woman (Des) and the tribe demotes Othello
- EShows that she is merely an achievement and that his intentions were of finance
- FLinks to Orpheus and Eurdyce
7"Her jesses were my dear heart strings"
- A3,3
- B4,1
- COthello
- DCassio
- ESays she may be 'haggard' - a hawk LINK TO Katerina in Taming Of The Shrew
- FMetaphor - she ties them together
- GMetaphor - she controls them but he let her
8"She will sing the savageness out of a bear"
- A4,1
- B3,3
- COthello
- DOrpheus and Eurdice - he married her through song, which then walked her to her death
- EDes is destructive and manipulate, which will lead to his death
- FOrpheus became considered unworthy by other Gods; Oth became Orpheus?
9"My heart is turned to stone"
- A4,1
- BBible- Ezekiel 36:26 - God replaced his heart of stone with a new spirit and heart of flesh
- CHuman heart by nature is stone and only through God's good does he replace it
- DEzekiel was bewitched, Othello bewitched
10"Who steals my purse, steals trash"
- A3,3
- B2,1
- CDesdemona is the trash
- DShe is Othello's purse as she provides him with greater acceptance and money
- E1,3 - 'To his valiant parts, did I my soul and fortunes consecrate'
- FIago thinks that Othello is lower than him and is the trash.
11"My noble moor is true of mind and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are"
- A3,4
- BDes
- CEmilia
- DBaseness- lowity
- EBaseness- lack of moral principles
- Fnaivety
12"When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again"
- A5,2
- BOthello does not have Godly powers (rose = death and life)
- COthello does have Godly powers, but doesn't wish to use them (rose = death and life)
- DRose = symbol of passion - once lost cannot be regained?
- ERose = virginity - he has corrupted her?
- FRose = happiness - he has taken it
13"The curse of marriage"
- A3,3
- B3,2
- C"witchcraft that I have used"
- DSaid only 180 lines after "I do love thee"
- ESaid 2 scenes after "i do love thee"
14"Passion having my best judgement collided, assays to lead the way"
- A2,3
- BPassion was considered dangerous and a cause of destruction to the pride of a man.
- CSaid to Desdemona
- DSaid to Cassio
- E3,3
15"Perdition catch my soul// But I do love thee; and when I love thee not// chaos has come again"
- A3,3
- BOthello
- CDesdemona
- DHesiod's Theonomy - Chaos was first, then Eros (the Goddess of love and sexual desire) - his child.
- EUnnatural sexual desire in black people
- FUnnatural sexual desire in all
- G5,2
16"The purchase made, the fruits are to ensure; that profit's to come 'tween me and you"
- AFruit represents gluttony or temptation - lust not love? Seven deadly sins
- B2,3
- C5,1
- D'Purchase' = marriage
- E'Purchase' = dowry
- F'Purchase' = Des is an investement
- G'Profit' is sex - stereo typically black people thought to be sexually driven
- HProfit is heirs
17"Whiter skin of hers than snow ans skin as smooth as monumental alabaster"
- A5,2
- B5,1
- CShows Othello's idolised infactuation rather than his love
- D'alabaster' - white stone for statues or funeral/death monuments - hopes to immortalise her in some way
- E'alabaster' - white skin colour
- F'alabaster' = black - wants Des to be black so relationship would not have been ruined
18"It strikes where is doth love"
- ABIBLE: if you love something, punish it
- BOthello is talking about his sorrow and how she loves her so much that he has to kill her
- COthello is talking about revenge and punishing her for his misfortune
- D5,2
19"I kissed thee ere I killed thee"
- AHe kissed Des before he killed her and does so again before killing himself
- BOn their first kiss, their destruction began
- COthello kisses her where he killed her
- D5,2
20"Killing myself to die upon a kiss"
- ABIBLE: Judas kissed Jesus on his cheek to show the Romans who he was
- BDes is the source of his destruction
- CDes killed him
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