Act 3 Flashcards
Desdemona + Othello (Talking about Cassio) -> Act 3 Scene 3
Desdemona: Michael Cassio, that came a-wooing with you … when I have spoke of you dispraisingly
Desdemona: Why, this is not a boon,
Iago + Othello -> Act 3 Scene 3
Othello: Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul /
I do love thee; and when I thee not, / Chaos is come again
Is he not honest
Honest, my lord?
Honest? Ay, honest
Othello: what dost thou think?
Iago: think my Lord ?
Othello: Think, my lord! By heaven, he echoes me, / As if there were some monster in his thought / Too hideous to be shown
Iago: O beware my lord of jealousy / it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / the meat it feeds on
Othello: I’ll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; and on proof, there is no more but this: Away at once with love or jealousy!
Iago: I humbly do beseech you of your pardon / For too much loving you
Othello: I am bound to thee forever
Othello: Haply for I am black -> reason for Desdemona’s infidelity
Othello + Desdemona Act 3 Scene 3 -> Napkin Drop
Othello: I have a pain upon my forehead
Othello: Your napkin is too little [he pushes the handkerchief away, and it falls
Emilia + Iago Act 3 Scene 3
Emilia: This was her first remembrance from the Moor; My wayward husband hath a hundred times wooed me to steal it; but she so loves the token … I nothing, but to please his fantasy
Emilia: Do not you chide; I have a thing for you
Iago: A good wench; give it me [snatching it] … Go, leave me
Iago + Othello Marriage Scene Act 3 Scene 3
Othello: Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content; farewell the plumed troops and the big wars
Othello: I think my wife be honest, and think she is not; I think that thou art just, and think thou art not
Iago: I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion.
I do repent me that I put it to you.
Othello: Her name, that was as fresh As Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as my own face.
Othello: Poison or fire, or suffocating streams
Iago: Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkey’s
Iago: I lay with Cassio lately …I heard him say “Sweet Desdemona, Let us be wary, let us hide our loves”
Iago: Though it be but a dream … this may help to thicken other proofs
Iago: Tell me but this: have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief spotted with strawberries in your wife’s hand
Othello: I’ll tear her all to pieces!
Othello: O, blood, blood, blood!
(Othello Kneels)…
(Iago Kneels)
I am your own for ever
Othello: Damn her, lewd minx ! O, damn her, damn her!
Handkerchief Confrontation Act 3 Scene 4
Othello: A liberal hand. The hearts of old gave hand; but our new heraldry is hands, not hearts
Othello: There’s magic in the web of it
Othello: Lend me thy handkerchief / Desdemona: I have it not about me
That handkerchief did an Egyptian to my mother give … while she kept it ‘twould make her amiable and subdue my father …to lose’t or give’t away were such perdition as nothing else could match
Emilia + Desdemona Act 3 Scene 4
Emilia: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; / They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, / They belch us
Bianca + Cassio Act 3 Scene 4
Bianca: O, Cassio, whence came this (handkerchief)
Let the devil and his dame haunt you
