Short sentences are used by Shakespeare to show the importance. What exactly is Iago? Machiavellian traits.
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"Let me go with him." A1SIII Des.
Short sentence/words=importance. Imperative, especially for Des. talking to senators shows her as a rebellious woman that commands authority too.
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"A maiden never bold;/Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion/ Blush'd at herself" Brabantio, A1SIII
Patriarch's view of Desdemona. Idyllic, false. Is the flawed view of women as 'still' what causes Desdemona's death?
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"My downright violence and storm of fortunes/May trumpet the world" A1SIII Desdemona
Hyperbole. Suggestion that their union literally shakes society (the world) to its core. Des seems aware of the sociopolitical implications. Talking to senators as a woman=rebel
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"Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/She has decieved her father, and may thee" Brabantio, A1SIII
Rhyming couplets used by Shakespeare to foreshadow/omen. Establishes the idea of infidelity, first key that Iago manipulates
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"Hell and night/Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light" Iago A1SIII
Rhyming couplet. Light/Dark and Monster imagery. Religious implications of Iago's deceit.
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Venice
Shakespeare sets his plays in Italy to not be charged for treason. Venice= Sexual liberty. Order. Western.
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Cyprus/ Fourth Ottoman-Venetian Wars
Suggestions of chaos, anarchy, death and savageness. West v East conflict. Most of the action occurs here.
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"Even now, now, very now, an old black ram/Is tupping your white ewe" Iago, A1SI
Animal imagery. Repetition of now suggests urgency. Black ram=devil/Occult. Racism against Othello. Sexually charged-see Othello as sub-human, animalistic.
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"Thou art a villain." "You are a senator." Brabantio/Iago. A1SI
Comedy. Suggestions that political authority is villainous. Machiavellianism, links to context of King James' rise to power.
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Moor
Actually means Muslim. Othello's identity is stuck between being Venetian/Christian versus his blackness and Islam.
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malignant and a turban'd Turk/Beat a Venetian...I took by the throat the circumcised dog,/And smote him, thus" Othello A5SII
Othello's final speech. Anecdote to war could be inferred he's talking about his own past. Circ.dog=Turk/Muslim-savagery. Othello's identity crisis leads to him killing the savage in him.
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"with as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio" Iago A2SI
Aside. Insect imagery. Metaphor, Iago a spider-schemer. Cassio fly-foolish. Great-idiocy large? Power great? Iago is aware of his actions.
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"would she give you so much of her lips/As of her tongue she oft bestows on me" Iago A2SI
Talking harshly about Emilia. Women seen not heard? Emilia initially presented as submissive/victim.
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"Alas, she has no speech." Des. A2SI
Desdemona contrasts Iago noting Emilia's quiet. Desdemona as a rebel. Women having voices.
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;/It is the green eyed monster" Iago A3SIII
Personified jealousy. Apostrophisation suggests an appeal. Monster imagery-Savageness associated to jealousy/linked to Othello's race (Old black ram).
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"She did deceive her father, marrying you" Iago A3SIII
Refers to A1SIII. Arousing early doubts and suspicion. Did Des. deceive?
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"On horror's head horrors accumulate" Othello A3SIII
Alliteration, the sound of h is powerful and suggests shock.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
"Let me go with him." A1SIII Des.
Back
Short sentence/words=importance. Imperative, especially for Des. talking to senators shows her as a rebellious woman that commands authority too.
Card 3
Front
"A maiden never bold;/Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion/ Blush'd at herself" Brabantio, A1SIII
Back
Card 4
Front
"My downright violence and storm of fortunes/May trumpet the world" A1SIII Desdemona
Back
Card 5
Front
"Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/She has decieved her father, and may thee" Brabantio, A1SIII
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