Desdemona Flashcards
Desdemona stands up to her father
‘so much duty as my mother show’d to you, preferring you before her father’
1.3
Desdemona encourages Iago’s bravado
‘what wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst praise me?’
2.1
Desdemona plans to persist with Cassio’s case
‘I’ll intermingle everything he does with Cassio’s suit’
3.3
Desdemona detects Othello’s change in language
‘why do you speak so startingly and rash?’
3.4
Desdemona aggravates the Cassio situation and believes Othello is distracting her
‘This is a trick to put me from my suit’
3.4
Desdemona realises it is wrong to idolise men
‘nay, we must think men are not Gods’
3.4
Desdemona realises she is worth more
‘I have not deserved this’
4.1
Desdemona insists she is loyal
‘Your wife, my lord; your true and loyal wife’
4.2
wedding sheets
‘Lay on my bed my wedding sheets’
4.2
Desdemona declares that she will always love Othello
‘his unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love’
4.2
Desdemona’s instructions to Emilia should she die
‘If I do die before thee prithee, shroud me in one of those same sheets’
4.3
Barbary horse lady
‘But to go hang my head all at one side, and sing it like poor Barbary’
4.3
Lodovico as Othello’s character foil
‘This Lodovico is a proper man’
4.3
Desdemona asks Emilia if there are women who are unfaithful
‘Tell me, Emilia,- that there be women do abuse their husbands in such gross kind’
4.3
Desdemona begs for her life
‘O, banish me, my lord, but kill me not!’
5.2
