Othello: Iago Character Quotations
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- Created on: 31-05-21 11:54
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- Iago Character Quotations
- Quotes to show Iago's desire for revenge on Othello
- "I follow him to serve my turn upon him"
- "In following him, I follow but myself"
- "Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end;"
- "I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at; I am not what I am."
- "He holds me well;The better shall my purpose work on him
- Quotes to show Iago believes Othello slept with his wife
- "It is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheetsH'as done my office"
- "I know not if't be true,But I, for mere suspicion, in that kind,Will do, as it for surety"
- "I do suspect the lusty MoorHath leaped into my seat"
- Quotes to show Iago's deceitful nature
- Cassio says that he "never knew a Florentine more kind and honest"
- Desdemona declares "O, that's an honest fellow"
- He persuades Othello that his "honesty and love doth mince this matter" when the opposite is true.
- After Othello kills Desdemona he still calls Iago "My friends... honest, honest Iago."
- Iago presented as evil
- "divinity of hell"
- "So I will turn her virtue into pitch And out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all"
- "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word" .(Iago's last line in the play)
- Iago showing his contempt for Othello's "weak function"
- "His soul is so enfettered to her love That she may make, unmake, do what she list"
- Othello says, "when I love thee not/ Chaos is come again"
- Quotes to show Iago's scheming becomes darker & Iago being the "opportunist"
- "Do it not with poison. Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated"
- "wether he kill Cassio,Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,Every way makes my gain"
- Quotes to show Iago's desire for revenge on Othello
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