Othello: Desdemona Character Quotations
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- Created on: 31-05-21 12:12
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- Desdemona Character Quotations
- Quotes that present Desdemona as goodness
- Cassio: "she is indeed perfection"
- Iago: "as fruitful/As the free elements"
- Desdemona's death
- "O banish me, my lord, but kill me not!...Kill me tomorrow; let me live tonight!...But half an hour!...But while I say one prayer!"
- Desdemona being a model wife
- "Then heaven/Have mercy on me!"
- Quotes to show Othello's inner conflict when about to kill Desdemona
- "Yet I'll not shed her blood/ Nor scar that whiter skin..."
- "She must die, else she'll betray more men"
- "Put out the light and then put out the light"
- Desdemona's true love to Othello
- ‘my noble Moor is true of mind, and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are.’
- What Desdemona's father describes her as
- What she is actually like
- She is independent: she chooses the man she wants to marry, she speaks to the Duke and argues her case “I love the Moor to live with him”
- Her father describes her as pure, meek and subservient, ‘a maiden never bold’
- Yet when confronted by him, she defends her choices in a public forum, and says she will ‘trumpet them to the world’
- What she is actually like
- Desdemona will defend Othello's nature to the very end
- ‘Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord’
- Quotes that present Desdemona as goodness
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