Types of love in Othello: Emilia

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Love & Sex

Realistic love

  • "I have a thing for you" (3.3.301)
  • "They are all but stomachs, and we all but food/ They eat us hungerly, and when they are full/ They belch us" (3.4.98-100)
  • "I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip" (4.3.36-7)
  • "But i do think it is their husbands faults? If wives do fall" (4.3.86)
  • "Pour our treasures into foreign laps" (4.3.86)
  • "Their wives haves senses like them: they see, and smell,/ And have their palates both for sweet and sour" (4.3.90-1)
  • "And have not we affections/ Desires for sport" (4.3.96-7)
  • "The ills we do, their ills instruct us so" (4.3.99)
  • "I might do't as well i'th'dark" (4.3.64)
  • "The world's a huge thing; it is a great price for a small vice" (4.3.66-7)
  • "Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch? I should venture purgatory for't" (4.3.372-3

Marital love

  • "I nothing but to please his fantasy" (3.3.301)
  • "I have a thing for you" (3.3.301)
  • "Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch? I should venture purgatory for't" (4.3.372-3
  • "Tis proper i obey him, but not now" (5.2.195)

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