act 3 Flashcards
Blindness
‘I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest’
‘men should be what they seem’ -Iago irony
(Going) ‘this honest creature’
tragic villain plotting to portray Cassio as a threat
‘Ha! I like not that’- Iago plants the idea that Cassio is guilty of something without directly saying it.
‘ Did Michael Cassio, when you wooed my lady, Know of your love?’
‘no further harm’- irony
‘I think that he is honest’- Cassio
‘I am to pray you not to strain my speech’
tragic victim- Cassio
’ Cassio, that came a wooing with you, and so many time- When I have spoke of you dispraisingly- Hath ta’en your part’
tragic victim- Desdemona
‘If I do vow a friendship, I’ll preform it to the last article’
‘My lord shall never rest’
‘ tomorrow night, or Tuesday morn, On Tuesday noon’ - persistent
‘so young’
‘As Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face’
tragic fall- outside first soliloquy
‘I am bound to thee for ever’ o about i
‘The Moor already changes with my poison’
‘Farewell the tranquil mind’
‘Othello’s occupation gone’
‘prove my love a whore. Give me the ocular proof’
‘Death and damnation! O!’
‘I’ll tear her all to pieces’
Desdemona’s and Othello’s relationship
‘If I have any grace or power to move you’
‘sweet Desdemona, some other time’ - dismisses her
‘I will deny thee nothing’
‘I am obedient’
‘excellent wretch’
‘Are you not well?’
Jealousy- Othello’s hamartia
’ O beware my lord of jealousy; it is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on’
tragic victim- Othello being confident
‘she had eyes, and chose me’
Iago’s portrayal of Venetian women
‘In Venice they do let God see the pranks They dare do not show their husbands; their best conscience’
‘she did deceive her father, marrying you’
‘prime as goats, as hot as monkeys’
tragic fall- Othello’s first soliloquy
’ If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I’d whistle her off, and let her down the wind to prey at fortune’.
‘Haply, for I am black’
‘I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her’.
‘O curse of marriage!’
‘delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites’.
Iago’s treatment of Emilia
‘My wayward husband hath a hundred times wooed me to steal it’
‘I nothing but to please his fantasy’
‘foolish wife’
(Snatching it)
‘They are all but stomachs and we all but food.. they belch us’
‘They are not ever jealous for the cause’
Peripeteia- Act 3 Scene 3
‘Arise black vengeance, from the hollow hell. Yield up, o love, thy crown and hearted throne to tyrannous hate’.
‘O, blood, blood, blood!’
Cassio treatment of bianca
‘Fair bianca’
‘Sweet love’
‘Nor my wish see me womaned’
‘It’s very good: I must be circumstanced’- B
‘A customer!’
