Brabantio Flashcards
Brabantio suggests that daughters are deceptive
‘trust not your daughter’s minds By what you see them act’
Brabantio claims ownership over Desdemona by implying she has been stolen
‘O thou foul thief!’
Brabantio makes an accusation of witchcraft
‘thou hast enchanted her’
Brabantio suggests Othello has trapped Desdemona with witchcraft
‘chains of magic’
Brabantio describes Desdemona with a list
‘a maid so tender, fair, and happy’
Desdemona rejected many venetian men
‘she shun’d the wealthy curled darlings of our nation’
Brabantio dehumanises Othello
‘sooty bosom of such a thing as thou’
Brabantio claims Othello has used potions to bewitch Desdemona
‘abus’d her delicate youth with drugs or minerals that weakens motion’
Brabantio is overly dramatic about the situation and interrupts the senate
‘my particular grief is of so flood-gate and o’erbearing nature’
Brabantio suggests Desdemona is ruined and taken away from him
‘she is abus’d, stol’n from me, and corrupted’
Brabantio claims that Desdemona would have been afraid of Othello
‘to fall in love with what she fear’d to look on’
Brabantio claims it is unnatural for them to be together
‘Against all rules of nature’
Desdemona’s loyalty is questioned by Brabantio
‘where most you owe obedience?’
Brabantio is grateful he has no more daughters after Desdemona’s marriage to Othello
‘For your sake jewel, I am glad at soul I have no other child for thy escape would teach me tyranny’
