Jealousy: Iago is jealous of Othello because he received the promotion that Iago wanted; this means Iago speaks to undermine him
“never set a squadron in the field, nor the division of a battle knows more than a spinster”
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Jealousy: Iago claims that Othello slept with his wife Emilia
“And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets”
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Jealousy: Iago ironically warns Othello of jealousy despite trying to make Othello jealous
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on”
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Jealousy: Iago has planted the seed of jealousy in Othello’s head
“The Moor already changes with my poison”
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Race: Othello’s racial motivated nickname
“the Moor”
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Race: Iago uses animalistic imagery to depict Othello and Desdemona in order to alarm Brabantio
“An old black ram is tupping your white ewe” and “your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs”
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Race: Brabantio is shocked with Desdemona’s choice of partner
“To fall in love with what she feared to look on!”
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Race: The Duke of Venice is positive about Othello but regards his personality as at odds with his race
“Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.”
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Race: Othello concedes to the negative portrayal of his race
“Arise, black vengeance, from thine hollow hell!”
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Gender: When waking Brabantio Iago shows how women are regarded as possessions
“Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags!”
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Gender: Desdemona can be interpreted to mean that Othello is her dream man from heaven or that she wished she had been born a man and lived Othello’s life
“she wished that heaven had made her such a man.”
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Gender: Brabantio suggests that Desdemona may have a pattern of deceiving men
“She has deceived her father, and may thee.”
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Gender: Desdemona ultimately becomes a victim of Othello’s abuse and is reduced into submission and blames herself for the abuse she endures
“I will not stay to offend you.”
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Gender: Emilia takes a far more contemporary view that women and men can be equals in a relationship
“Let husbands know their wives have sense like them.”
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Gender: Emilia, in an unexpected way, speaks out against what she has witnessed
"I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak"
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Pride: Othello is humiliated at the prospect of being a man whose wife has cheated on them
“I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me?”
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Marriage: Emilia believes that women only stray in marriage because of their husbands’ actions
“I do think it is their husbands' faults if wives do fall.”
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Marriage: Iago expresses the view that Desdemona’s marriage to Othello was an act of deception
“She did deceive her father, marrying you”
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Marriage: Othello seems to believe that all wealthy men are destined to be cuckolded
“Yet 'tis the plague of great ones… 'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.”
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Identity: Iago cryptically implies that his identity is not obvious
“I am not what I am” (spin on the Bible’s “I am what I am” – aligns Iago as the devil)
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Identity: Brabantio feels that Desdemona’s elopement has compromised his identity as a father and an authority figure
“what’s to come of my despisèd time”
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Identity: Iago is able to turn Othello’s love for Desdemona into utter hatred
“let her rot, and perish and be damned tonight, for she shall not live.”
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Love: Desdemona falls in love with Othello’s story
"She loved me for the dangers I had passed I loved her that she did pity them"
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Love: Othello’s love for Desdemona has left him
“my heart is turned to stone.”
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Love: Othello tells of how he would set Desdemona free if she has cheated on him
“Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings, I’d whistle her off and let her down the wind”
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Love: Desdemona’s love for Othello means she believes in him
“but my noble Moor is true of mind and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are” (ironic mention of jealousy)
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Loss: Othello feels great regret for taking Desdemona for granted and throwing her away
"Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away”
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Jealousy: Iago claims that Othello slept with his wife Emilia
Back
“And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets”
Card 3
Front
Jealousy: Iago ironically warns Othello of jealousy despite trying to make Othello jealous
Back
Card 4
Front
Jealousy: Iago has planted the seed of jealousy in Othello’s head
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