Emilia Flashcards

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What he will do with it, Heaven knows, not I

A

Emilia avoids responsibility, and faces great consequence

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Tis not a year or two shows us a man

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Emilia gives wisdom to Desdemona, theme of naivity and decieving

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They are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they’re jealous

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Emilia is cynical and does not blame Desdemona but believes Othello’s actions were fate

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It is a monster begot upon itself, born of itself

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The personification of jealousy shows its threat and inevitability

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If any wretch have put this in your head, let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse

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Comparison to Genesis shows severity of deception and Iago’s threat

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What will you do with it that you have been so earnest to have me filch it?

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Emilia is ignorant to the reprecussions of her theft

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They are all but stomachs and we all but food, to eat us hungrely and when they are full they belch us

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Emilia is wise in men in comparison to Des, she knows they are use to them like food and neglected like waste

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I durst, my lord, wager she’s honest, lay down my soul at stake

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Emilia has a devotion to Des, the word honest has been ruined by use of Iago

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I will be hang’d if some eternal villain, some busy and uninsinuating rogue, some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, have not devised this slander

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Emilia’s description of the villain is dramatically ironic, foreshadows her death

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It is their husbands fault if wives do fall

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Emilia avoids blame as she has been driven away by Iago, reference to Genesis also references deception/ignorance

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It is a great price for a small vice

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A comparison of Emilia and Des, naivity and wisdom, love and pain in marriage, there is not devotion in her marriage only service

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Let husbands know their wives have sense like them

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Women are neglected through the play and dehumanised, Emilia longs for justice

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