Act 3 Flashcards
(16 cards)
‘I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest’
Themes: apperance vs reality
Iago’s deception ranges across the male characters in the play, as he seems to support the rules of a military brotherhood, while in reality, this is all part of his plan
‘These letters give, Iago to the pilot’
Themes: male friendship
Othello entrusting Iago shows his move into Iago effectively becoming his right-hand man, showing Iago’s successful infiltration of the system
‘My noble Moor is true of mind and made of no such baseness/ as jealous creatures are’
Themes: pure love
Desdemona is blinded by her love for Othello and sees him in a glorified way, which becomes dangerous in the later scenes as she does not understand his change
‘Why do you speak so startingly and rash?’
Themes: naivety
Desdemona cannot understand Othello’s change and what it is due to as she naive to male behaviour and blinded by her love
‘They are all but stomachs and we all but food, they eat us hungrily, and when they are full, they belch us’
Themes: patriarchy, subrodination of women
Metaphor - Emilia understands male behviour better than Desdemona and sees them as controlling creatures, yet she also understands womens role as passive observants that are used by this patriarchal system and are thus abused
‘We must think men are not gods/ nor of them look for such observancy/as fits the bridal’
Themes: female agency
This is one of Desdemona’s only moments where she is aware she should not worship Othello however as she believes he is different from other men it becomes less relevant
‘I think the sun where he was born/ drew all such humours from him’
Themes: pure love
humours were used to determine illness and a balance of all four humours made the perfect humours - Desdemona’s description may be positive yet Othello’s lack of humours would actually make him very unstable in the eyes of physisits
‘I will deny thee nothing’
‘Nay this was but his dream/ but this denoted a foregone conclusion’
‘I greet thy love, not with vain thanks but with acceptance bounteous’
‘If more thou dost perceive let me know more’
‘This fellow’s of exceeding honesty, and knows all qualities with a learned spirit of human dealings’
‘Note if your lady strain his entertainment with any strong or vehement importunity’
‘Tis the plague of great ones; Prerogative as they are less than base. ‘Tis destiny shunnable, like death’
‘She is a most exquisite lady’/‘An inviting eye, and me thinks she modest’
‘The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue: That profit’s yet to come ’tween me and you’
