Act 4 Flashcards
Othello kiss quote
“An unauthorised kiss!”
Othello on D’s honour
“She protectress of honour too: / May she give that?”
Iago leading on Othello’s thoughts
“With her, on her - what you will”
Othello exploring the nuances of the word lie
“Lie with her? Lie on her? We say ‘lie on her’ when they belie. Lie with her? ‘Swounds that’s fulsome!”
Othello on being a cuckhold
“A horned man’s a monster and a beast”
Iago calling out O’s duality
“a civil monster”
Iago goading O’s fragile masculinity
“Good sir, be a man” “a passion most unsuiting such a man”
Cassio dismissing Bianca’s affection
“I marry - what, a customer? … This is the monkey’s own giving out”
Othello’s violent reaction after overhearing Cassio and Iago’s conversation
“How shall I murder him, Iago?”
Iago on O and D’s marriage bed
“even the bed she hath contaminated”
D expressing her affection for C
“for the love I bear Cassio”
Othello’s most violent moment before D’s murder
“(striking her) Devil!”
O calling D a whore
“This is a subtle whore, / A closet, lock, and key of villanous secrets”
D’s unfortunate wording of questions
“My lord, what is your will?” “My lord, what is your pleasure?”
O questioning D’s dual corruption and beauty
“O thou black weed, why art so lovely fair?”
D excusing O’s cruelty
“He might have chid me so, for in good faith / I am a child to chiding”
D expressing that immaterial nature of her love
“Not the world’s mass of vanity could make me”
Emilia telling D that a woman cheating is not a big deal
“The world’s a huge thing: it is a great thing / For a small vice”
E on why wives cheat
“I do think it is their husbands’ faults / If wives do fall” - AO4 - fall of Eve
E addressing the audience about female sexuality
“Let husbands know, / Their wives have sense like them”
E on the commonality of humanity regardless of gender
“Have we not affections, / Desires for sport, and frailty as men have? / …. / The ills we do, their ills instruct us so”
Cassio telling Bianca to leave him alone
‘Tis such another fitchew - marry, a perfumed one!
