A3 QUOTES - OTHELLO

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A3 S1 - "your music, that he desires you, for love's sake, to make no more noise with it"
Othello's dislike of the music alludes to his perhaps 'barbaric' qualities. since the appreciation of music was thought to be the sign of a civilisated and cultured mind
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A3 S1 - "i'll devise a mean to draw the Moor out of the way..."
the audience wil see the irony when iago talks openly to cassio about deceiving othello. the irony is present to demonstrate how much iago is actually trused by others - he is an unsuspecting and shocking villain for many of the characters
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A3 S2 - Significance
O's personal affairs are being steadily undermined - we assume that cassio will take this opt. to speak to D - thus falling into the trap that I has laid for him
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A3 S3 - "good cassio"
D trusts C = will become a disadvantage as D will plead to O for C to be reinstated = O thinks that D's motives are sexual
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A3 S3 - "o, that's an honest fellow"
it would seem that the whole of venice thinks of I as honest. also a classical case of dramatic irony. D does not relaise I's treachery/ manipulation
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A3 S3 -"do not doubt cassio... as friendly as you were"
D states that she has dominance over O, something that I is plotting to have through his elaborate plan. D's certainty says much about S's pro-feminist leanings in an era when women did as they were told
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A3 S3 - "you do love my lord"
a nod from S to the patriarcy that D seeks to subvert.
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A3 S3 - "Ha! i like not that"
first seed of doubt that he will nurture throughout this scene. he suggests that the figure leaving cannot be as C is an honourable man. hints that C may have a guilty conscience and then later suggests to O what it could be that C feels guilty about
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A3 S3 - "that he should steal away so guilty-like"
I is sowing the seeds of doubt in O - O will then in return start doubting C
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A3 S3 - "tomorrow night... Tuesday morn... but let it not exceed three days"
a bit overzealous in C and O's reconciliation = seeds of doubt. D assertive/ insistent manner is the opposite of a typical shakespearan woman = thinking she has the right to demand/ order O
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A3 S3 - "when i love thee not, chaos is come again"
O says that when he doesnt love D, the nothing is right - natural order is unbalanced - is it seen as natural O and D's love??? I utilises this chaos to his advantage
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A3 S3 - "honest?.. honest...honest?"
the repetition here highlighting I's flagrant dishonesty- I questioning is intense just to get O interested in what I is saying - who is control here?
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A3 S3 - "utter my thoughts? why, say they are vile and false"
dramatic irony as we know that I is going to be vile and false. he is aware of the power he has over O = intrigues O and make shim depserate again
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A3 S3 - "oft my jealousy faults shapes that are not"
I is admitting his own hamartia - his ambition to exact revenge due to his jealousy. jealous of C for making Liuetenant and of O for sleeping with E = effect of cuckoldry
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A3 S3 - "green eyed monster which doth mock the meet it feeds on"
theme of jealousy evident. I is saying that if O gets jealous enough that he will kill D and then, ironically, he will fulfill I's plans anyway. animalistic imagery again whihc reoccurs througout the play.
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A3 S3 - "the changes of the moon with fresh suspicions"
acknowledges that as time goes on, his suspicions will gather more strength.
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A3 S3 - "exchange me for a goat"
biblical reference - goat reference - represents evil and foreshadows O's loving nature being defiled into doing evil
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A3 S3 - "nor from mine own weak merits will i draw the smallest fear or doubt of her revolt"
O declares that he wont be tempted into thinking ill of D just as a rsult of his insecurity = white woman with a black man stereotype
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A3 S3 - "she had eyes and she chose me"
feels privileged that D would want him as he doesnt feel worthy of her - inadequate
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A3 S3 - "look to your wife; observe her well with cassio"
I warns O to be careful letting his wife interact with too much with C/ other men - aims to make O paranoid (succeeds)
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A3 S3 - "in venice they do let God see the pranks they dare not show their husbands"
in venice, women were infamous for having affairs and only answered to God - defiant of their husbands
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A3 S3 - "she did deceive her father, marrying you"
reminds O that D had previously defied her 'duties', so why would she suddenyl be against ruining her morals now
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A3 S3 - "pray you not to strain my speech to grosser issues... than to suspicion"
manipulates O to seek what isnt there while portraying himself as innocent - removes himself to allow the rage and betrayal of O to overcome/unravel with him appearing to have not influenced things - did this at the start w Brab, too
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A3 S3 - "vile success"
oxymoron sums up I's actions thus far and yet ti come - he is succeeding with his plots and vendetta against O but the audience see him as a worthy hero + so a fate of demise is not the desired outcome for S's character, making I's success seem vile
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A3 S3 - "of her own clime, complexion and degree"
reinforces the idea that O is an outsider and unworthy of D. alliteration
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A3 S3 - "i do not in position distinctly speak of her"
I is being honest - a very rare occurence - and he chooses to do it at a time that O was in doubt; therefore meaning that his honesty is not taen seriously
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A3 S3 - "fall to match you with her country forms"
(I - O) fallen to a commoner and prostitute - not uncommon in Venetian society
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A3 S3 - "farewell, farewell"
he has give up clinging to what he wants to be true (and what the audience kknow actually is - D is loyal) and now will let his insecurities (his hamartia) ge the better of his judgement
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A3 S3 - "o curse of marriage"
O now sees his marriage to D as a burden - no longer gains anything beneficial from it (compared to before, the 'honeymood period')
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A3 S3 - "that we call these delicae creatures ours, and not their appetites"
O states his worry about not being in control of his wife, and how this may undermine his strong position within the society/ military. D's 'lust' will be O's downfall. an idea that women dont acc belong to their husbands = patriarchy
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A3 S3 - "i had rather be a toad"
O's insecurities has led to O wanting to be a lowlife creature with hardly any significance or contribution to the ecosystem. animalistic imagery
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A3 S3 - "i am to blame"
O is perhaps regretting marrying D - hes realising his own fault for the pain he is in now = shouldve prepared himself for the possibility = cultural reference of black man with white woman of high social standing
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the audience wil see the irony when iago talks openly to cassio about deceiving othello. the irony is present to demonstrate how much iago is actually trused by others - he is an unsuspecting and shocking villain for many of the characters

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A3 S1 - "i'll devise a mean to draw the Moor out of the way..."

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O's personal affairs are being steadily undermined - we assume that cassio will take this opt. to speak to D - thus falling into the trap that I has laid for him

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D trusts C = will become a disadvantage as D will plead to O for C to be reinstated = O thinks that D's motives are sexual

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it would seem that the whole of venice thinks of I as honest. also a classical case of dramatic irony. D does not relaise I's treachery/ manipulation

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