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’
    • Desdemona will defend Othello's nature to the very end
      • ‘Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord’

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