Othello quotes

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Act 1 - scene 1. how does the play begin and what are the effects.
play begins with an argument. foreboding
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roderigo is foolish .
'thou iago who hast had my purse' -------- 'i am not what i am' yet roderigo trusts him.
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iago's contradictions to 'i am not what i am' and his 'peculiar...'
i wear my heart on my sleeve. - does not hide his duplicity.---- for his peculiar end.
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Act 1 Scene 1 - Iago's description of Cassio ... mere ? without ?
'mere prattle, without practice'
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Act 1 Scene 1- Iago's description of Cassio (2)
‘And what was he, a great arithmetician’
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Act 1 Scene 1 - Iago to Brabantio about Desdemona and Othello-Racist
'an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe.'
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Act 1 Scene 1 - Iago to Brabantio about Desdemona and Othello-provocatory imagery
your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
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Act 1 Scene 1 - Iago's Facade. i must show out a ? and a ? of love
‘I must show out a flag and sign of love.’
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Act 1 Scene 1 - Roderigo's Naievity
Thou told’st me thou didst hold him in thy hate’
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Act 1 Scene 1 - Roderigo's racism. (about lips)
‘..the thick lips.’
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Act 1 Scene 1 - Roderigo's racism (2) (othello as an outsider)
In an extravagant and wheeling stranger of here and everywhere.’
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Act 1 Scene 1 - Roderigo's racism / jealousy (sibilant)
‘the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor.’
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Act 1 Scene 1 - Roderigos view of Desdemona actions
‘Your daughter..hath made a gross revolt..
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Act 1 scene 1 - Roderigo on Desdemona
‘Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes'
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Act 1 Scene 1 - Brabantio on Iago / Roderigo
‘I have charg’d thee not to haunt about my doors.’
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Act 1 Scene 1 - Brabantio on feeling betrayed
Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds/ By what you see them act.’
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Act 1 Scene 2 - Iago's duality (2)
‘By Janus, I think no’
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Act 1 scene 2 - Iago misogeny of Desdemona
Faith, he tonight have boarded a land carrack’
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Act 1 Scene 2 - Iago's duality
‘Nine or ten times/ I had thought to have yerk’d him here, under the ribs’
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Act 1 Scene 2 - Othellos entrance- his importance
ENTER OTHELLO, IAGO, AND ATTENDANTS WITH TORCHES
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Act 1 Scene 2 - Othellos megalopsychia (?) / high status
‘My services which I have done the signiory/Shall out-tongue his complaints’
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Act 1 scene 2 - Othellos view of his marriage
For know, Iago,/But that I love the gentle Desdemona.’
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Act 1 scene 2 - Othelos valour - contrasting Iago who hides
‘Not I; I must be found.’
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Act 1 scene 2 - Othelos valour (2) (swords)
‘Keep up your bright swords for the dew will rust them’
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Act 1 scene 2 - Othello a strong military presence / experienced
Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it/Without a prompter.’
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Act 1 scene 2 - Brabantio on Othello
‘foul thief…where hast thou stow’d my daughter.’
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Act 1 Scene 2 - Brabantios wish for desdemona not to have...
‘…she shunn’d the wealthy curled darlings of our nation.’
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Act 1 scene 2 - Brabantio racism / betrayal from daughter
‘Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom..to fear not to delight.’
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Act 1 scene 2 - Brabantio racism / betrayal from daughter (2)
‘To fall in love with what she fear’d to look on?’
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Act 1 Scene 2 -Brabantio believes Othello used witchcraft
‘..thou hast practis’d on her with foul charms./Abus’d her delicate youth..’
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Act 1 Scene 2 - Brabantio wise foreshadowing the demise of the marriage
‘Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see/She has deceiv’d her father and may thee.’
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Act 1 Scene 3 - Iagos view of virtue
‘Virtue? A fig. Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus’
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Act 1 scene 3 - Iagos view of Othello and Desdemona (not loving , merely)
It is merely a lust of blood and a permission of the will.’
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Act 1 scene 3 -Iago's monetary manipulation of Rodrigo
‘Put money in thy purse’
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Act 1 scene 3 - Iago's stemming of doubts of the marriage ; a frail vow
‘..a frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian and a super-subtle Venetian.’
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Act 1 scene 3 - Iago on honesty
‘The Moor is of a free and open nature/That thinks men honest that but seem to be so.’
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Act 1 scene 3 - Othello othering himself due to his speech
‘Rude am I in my speech…’
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Act 1 scene 3 - Othello's honesty of his past
‘I will a round unvarnish’d tale deliver.’
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Act 1 scene 3 - Othello giving desdemona a voice
‘Send for the lady to the Sagittary.’
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Act 1 Scene 3 - Othello on how the marriage began
‘She’s come again and with a greedy ear/Devour up my discourse.’
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Act 1 Scene 3 -Othello; inevitability that the marriage wont work
‘Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war/ My thrice driven bed of down.’
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Act 1 scene 3- loving relationship (faith)
‘My life upon her faith!
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Act 1 Scene 3 - Desdemona diplomat
My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty.’
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Act 1 Scene 3 - Why Desdemona loves Othello
‘That I did love the Moor….I saw Othello’s visage in his mind.’
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Act 1 Scene 3-Desdemona assertion
‘…if I be left behind/A moth of peace…Let me go with him.’
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Act 1 scene 3 - Roderigos shame of his love for Desdemona as she does not feel the same
‘I confess it is my shame to be so fond, but it is not in my virtue to amend it.’
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Act 1 scene 3 - Roderigos shame of his love for Desdemona as she does not feel the same (2)
‘I will incontinently drown myself’
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Act 1 scene 3 - The dukes back handed , othering compliment of othello
Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.
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Act 1 scene 3 -FIRST SENATOR - misogynistic
Adieu, brave Moor. Use Desdemona well.
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Act 1 scene 3 - Brabantio planting seeds of doubt about Desdemona honesty
Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee
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Act 1 scene 3 Roderigo - confess love for desdemona - ridiculous.
What should I do? I confess it is my shame to be so fond, but it is not in my virtue to amend it.
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act 1 scene 3 - Iago's view of love
It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will
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Othellos importance regardless of desdemona - either her stay or going ....
....th'affair cries haste
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redeeming Othello - your son in law is...
...far more fair than black
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no time for desdemona - doomed love
come desdemona , i ave but an hour...to spend with thee
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iagos view of virtue
virtue? a fig!
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iagos suspicions of othello sleeping with desdemona.. and possible motivation??
has done my office...but for mere suspicion in that kind will do for sureity.--jealousy of their loving marriage and his inability to love.
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it cannot be that ? should long contrive to love ?
Desdemona,,, the moor.
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iagos condemning of the marriage as 'moors are....
hangeable in their wills' - manipulating roderigo
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foreshadowing of the deterioration of the mariage ' frail ... betwixt an ..... barbarin and a super ......venetian'
a frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian and a super subtle Venetian.
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Iagos plot in a sililoquy - Verse!! hell and night....(satanic)
Hell and night / must bring this monstrous verse to light. --- satanic.
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Act 2 scene 1 - cassios reasoning for being affectionate
tis my breeding that gives me this bold show of courtesy *kisses amelia*
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desdemona being fiesty...'fie upon thee...
slanderer'
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accusations of the women being prostitutes - rise to play and...
'you rise to play and go to bed to work'
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ALEXANDRA MELVILLE' iagos rage against female sexuality...
..may be just one example of his spiteful attacks on 'otherness' to soothe his sense of impotence'
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ALEXANDRA MELVILLE - jacobean idea of total chastity...
...leaves desdemona vulnerable to an unforgiving male gaze
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Cassio ... you man relish him more in the ? than in the ?
soldier than the scholar
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Othello expressing love for desdemona - ironic_ if it were now to die
...twere now to be most happy.
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Iago that desdemona is average - wine referance
the wine she drinks is made of grapes
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Act 2 Scene 3 - iaggo describes desdemonaas the poor ? of ?
trash of venice
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othello and desdemona still haven consummated their marriage
the profits yet to come tween me and you
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...but iago still depicts her sexually
shes sport for jove.....ill warrent her game... fresh and delicious creature.
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Peer pressure despite unhapppy brains...
for drinking.....// ill do it but it dislikes me
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iagos successfulduplicity amongst the quarrel - iago that looks...
dead with grieving
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cassio's melt down - i have lost the ? par of mysef, what remains is ?
immortal...bestial
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iago demonising cassio
'steal away so guilty like'
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act 3 scene 3 - othellos foolishness trusting iago - I KNOW THAT THOU ART FULL OF
LOVE AND HONESTY
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Act 3 scene 3 - igo about jealousy
its the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on
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othello - mistrusting desdemona ... i had rather
be a toad and live upon the vapour of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing i love.'
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' i have a pin upon my forehead here' - significance
cuckold - horns OR devilry
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emelia stealing the handkercheif
what he will do with it heaven knows noti
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deceit - iago
the moor alredy changes with my poisin
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'thou iago who hast had my purse' -------- 'i am not what i am' yet roderigo trusts him.

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