Othello- Shakespeare

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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Iago reason why he hates Othello, bad representation of Othello
"Despise me if I do not. Three great ones of the city, In personal suit to make me his liteutenant... he- as loving his own pride and purposes- Evades them with a bombast circumstance...For 'Certes' says he, 'I have already chose my officer.'"
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Iago, saying why he still works for Othello part 1
"...I follow him to serve my turn upon him... You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave That, doting on his own obsequious *******, Wears out his time, much like his master's ***, For naught but provender, and when he's old- cashiered."
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Iago wants power to destroy othello, why he still works for Othello part 2
"...Others there are Who, trimmed in forms and visages of duty, Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves, And, throwing but shows of service on their lords, Do well thrive by them, and when they have lined their coats Do themselve homage."
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Iago, shows slyness
"...In following him, I follow but myself- Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end;"
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Iago *Important*, Iago's nature
"...I am not what I am."
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Roderigo, talking about Othello, saying they can't do anything.
"What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe If he can carry't thus?"
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Iago, fast pace due to exclaimation marks.
"Awake! What ho, Brabantio! Thieves, thieves, thieves! Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags! Thieves, thieves!"
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Iago, referencing Othello, sexual reference and animal imagery.
"...an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe."
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Iago to Brabantio, suggesting Othello is a demon.
"...Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you."
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Iago to Brabantio, talks about status, trying to scare Brabantio.
"...we come to do you service, and you think we are ruffians, you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse, you'll have your nephews neigh to you, you'll have coursers for cousins and jennets for germans."
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Iago, sexual + animal reference.
"...your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs."
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Brabantio and Iago, Iago uses sarcastic mock-politeness
"BRABANTIO: Thou art a villian. Iago: You are a senator."
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Iago, two-faced nature, theme of hatred
"...Though I do hate him as I do hell pains, Yet, for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign of love-"
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Brabantio, believes his life is ruined
"It is too true an evil. Gone she is; And what's to come of my despised time Is naught but bitterness."
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Brabantio, saying fathers shouldn't trust their daughters.
"O treason of the blood! Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds By what you see them act."
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ACT 1 SCENE 1= Brabantio needs to transfer the blame
"Is there not charms By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?"
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ACT 1 SCENE 2= Iago, hinting at his two-faced nature
"Though in the trade of war I have slain men, Yet do I hold it very stuff o'th'conscience To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity Sometime to do me service."
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ACT 1 SCENE 2= Othello, saying that he wants Desdemona to be comfortable & not restricted by the life of wife of member of the army. Also saying he wouldn't married her if he didn't love her.
"... I love the gentle Desdemona, I would not my unhoused free condition Put into circumscription and confine For the seas' worth."
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ACT 1 SCENE 2= Othello, hinting that Othello is older than Desdemona.
"But look, what lights come yond?"
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ACT 1 SCENE 2= Iago- two-faced
"By Janus, I think no."
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ACT 1 SCENE 2= Cassio, showing Othello is important to some people
"You have been hotly called for,"
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ACT 1 SCENE 2= Iago, sexual reference and warfare imagery, talking about Othello + Desdemona
"Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land-carrack; If it prove lawful prize, he made for ever."
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ACT 1 SCENE 2= Othello, poetic language, saying experience is more powerful than swords.
"Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. Good signor, you shall more command with years Than with your weapons."
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ACT 1 SCENE 2= Brabantio, saying Othello is in league with the devil, talks about Desdemona as posession.
"O thou foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter/ Damned as thou art, thou enchanted her;"
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ACT 1 SCENE 2= Brabantio, racial insults, suggesting Desdemona is only with Othello out of fear
"Would ever have, t'incur a general mock, Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom Of such a thing as thou- to fear, not to delight?"
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ACT 1 SCENE 2= Brabantio, racial insult and supernatural link
"For if such actions may have passage free, Bondslaves and pagans shall our statesmen be."
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ACT 1 SCENE 3= Sailor, hints to Iago and Othello
"...'Tis a pageant To keep us in false gaze:"
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ACT 1 SCENE 3= Duke, how he greet Othello vs how he greets Brabantio
"Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you Against the general enemy Otttoman. (To Brabantio) I did not see you: welcome, gentle signor-"
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ACT 1 SCENE 3= Brabantio, personification, grief is presented like a predator
"For my particular grie Is of so flood-gate and o'er-bearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself."
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ACT 1 SCENE 3= Brabantio, supernatural theme, medicince used for illegimate purpose
"She is abused, stolen from me, and corrupted By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks. For nature so preposterously to err- Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense- Sans witchcraft could not."
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ACT 1 SCENE 3= Othello, shift in tone when Othello speaks (he speaks calmly whereas Brabantio speech is chaotic), admitting he has married Desdemona
"Most potent, grave, and reverend signors, My very noble and approved good masters; That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true; true I have married her-"
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ACT 1 SCENE3= Othello, poeticlanguage and mentions battle
"...since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have Their dearest action in the tented field: And little of this great world can I speak More than pertains to feats of broil and battle;"
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ACT 1 SCENE 3= Othello, posession, achieved, other competitors, talking about Desdemona
"I won his daughter."
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ACT 1 SCENE 3= Brabantio, describing Desdemona, perfect woman for the Jacobean times, Prejudice towards Othello due to the colour of his skin
"A maiden never bold. Blushed at herself, and she- in spite of nature, Of years, of country, credit, everything- To fall in love with what she feared to look on?"
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ACT 1 SCENE 3= Brabantio, theme of supernatural, to keep James 1 interested in Shakespeare.
"...so could err Against the rules of nature, and must be driven To find out practices of cunning hell Why this should be. I therefore vouch again That some mixtures powerful o'er the blood... He wrought upon her."
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ACT 1 SCENE 3= Othello, trusts Desdemona, would kill himself if that was what his wife wanted
"If you do find me foul in her report, The trust, the office I do hold of you Not only take away, but let your sentence Even fall upon my life."
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ACT 1 SCENE 3= Othello, poetic language, talking Desdemona
"And till she comes, as truly as to heaven I do confess the vices of my blood,"
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ACT 1 SCENE 3= Othello, Brabantio did like Othello and wanted to listen his stories.
"Her father loved, oft invited me, Still question me the story of my life From year to year: the battles, sieges... that he bade me tell it-...Of hair-breadth scapes i'th'imminent deadly breach... And portance im my travailous history,"
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"...I follow him to serve my turn upon him... You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave That, doting on his own obsequious *******, Wears out his time, much like his master's ***, For naught but provender, and when he's old- cashiered."

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