Othello quotes (Circulated around Othello)

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Act 1 scene 2. Othello showing his love for Desdemona and her innocence?
'I love thee gentle Desdemona'
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Act 1 scene 2.Othello is confident that he has a good reputation and that he can not be imprisoned be Brabantio.
'My parts, my title, my perfect soul'
-it reveals a sense of elegance Othello has, setting him up as a tragic hero; by embedding a sense of Othello Hubristic nature the audience may establish how Othello sees his actions, later on in the play, as Virtuous
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Act 1 scene 3,Barbantio accusing Othello of deceitful witchcraft.
'By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks'
-This perpetuates the common perception of the foreign lands as evil and primitive. It reinforces the stereotypical perception of 'the Moor'.
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Act 1 scene 1,Iago dehumanising Othello
'An old black ram is tupping your white ewe'
-This metaphorically derogatory and racist language reveals Iago's hatred for Othello, which is paramount to the initial view the audience has of get of Othello, as he is not on stage
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Act 1 scene 2,Barantio referring to Othello as a thief.
‘O thou foul thief!’
-exclamatory mood and alliteration highlight Brabantio’s anger, emphasising how uncommon this marriage was, and Othello's outsider status.
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Act 1,scene 3. Othello explain how and why Desdemona had fallen in love with him
'She wished that heaven made her such a man'
-shows his sense of valour
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Act 1,scene 3. Othello explains Desdemona's reaction to Othello's hardships
'She gave me for pains a world of sighs'
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Act I, Scene 3 The Duke of Venice advocating for Othello
'If virtue no delighted beauty lack,
Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.'
-At face value, the Duke says that if virtue can be beautiful, then Othello is indeed "fair"
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Act 2 scene 1,Desdemona showing her care for Othello's safety on the journey to Cyprus.
'I am not merry; but I do beguile
The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.'
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Act 2 scene 1 ,when Desdemona and Othello are reunited.
'O my fair warrior!/My dear Othello!’
shared line, possessive pronouns and exclamatory mood, emphasises the high of emotion they are experience and their togetherness is expressed through words. Perpetuating the solidarity of there love which is later co
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Act 2 scene 3,Othello speaking of Cassio's violence
'turned Turks'
-The Turks/ottomans were very barbaric and unfriendly. Ironically, Othello is speaking of Cassio’s aggression whereas Othello himself is the one who becomes a murderer
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Act 3 scene 2, Cassio falling victim to Iago's Machiavellian acts.
‘I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest’
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Act 3 scene 3, Desdemona speaking of how she shall convince Othello of Cassio goodness
''His bed shall seem a school, his board a shift'
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Act 3 scene 3, Othello explain what will happen if he does not love Desdemona
'When I love thee not, Chaos is come again'
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Act 3 scene 3,Iago metaphorically speaking about jealousy.
'Beware my lord of jelousy,it is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on'
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Act 3 scene 4, Othello speaks of the handkerchief as magic.
'There's magic in the web of it'
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Act 4 scene 1, Othello speaks of the punishment he will give Cassio.
'To confess and be hanged for his labour. First to be hanged then to confess.'
-This paradoxical statement reflex's his broken mind, He has lost awareness of justice, suggesting Othello no longer needs the truth, just revenge
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Act 4 scene 1, the Violence Othello is prepared to show Desdemona.
'I'll chop her into messes'
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Act 5 scene 1, Iago speaking of the outcome of his plans.
'This is the night, That either makes me of fordoes me quite
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Act 5 scene 2, Othello saying once he kills Desdemona he cannot bring her back
'I cannot give it vital growth again'
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Act 5 scene 2,Desdemona speaking of how shaken Othello is
'Some bloody passion has shaken your very frame'
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Act 5 scene 2,Othello using Zoomorpic imagery to describe him killing himself.
'I took by th'throat the circumcised dog'
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Act 5 scene 2, Iagos last line
'From this time forth I will never speak a word'
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Act 1 scene 2.Othello is confident that he has a good reputation and that he can not be imprisoned be Brabantio.

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'My parts, my title, my perfect soul'
-it reveals a sense of elegance Othello has, setting him up as a tragic hero; by embedding a sense of Othello Hubristic nature the audience may establish how Othello sees his actions, later on in the play, as Virtuous

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Act 1 scene 3,Barbantio accusing Othello of deceitful witchcraft.

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Act 1 scene 1,Iago dehumanising Othello

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Act 1 scene 2,Barantio referring to Othello as a thief.

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