Emilia Flashcards
(35 cards)
E: What he will do with it…
…Heaven knows, not I.
(A3:3)
E: I nothing but…
…to please his fantasy
(A3:3)
E: ‘They are not ever jealous for the cause…
…But jealous for they’re jealous.’
A3:4-
Emilia to Othello - ‘If any wretch have put this in your head…
…Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse’ (A4:1)
E: ‘They are all but stomachs, and we all but food . . .
…when they are full they belch us.’
(A3:4)
E: ‘it is their husband’s faults…
… if wives do fall’ (A4:3)
E: ‘It is a great price…
…for a small vice’ (A4:3)
E: ‘let husbands know their wives…
… have sense like them’ (A4:3)
E: ‘O, the ____ she, and you the ____’
- more angel
- blacker devil’ (A5:2)
E: ‘to wager she is honest…
…lay down my soul at stake’ (A4:2)
E: ‘I will be hanged if…
…[someone] have not devised this slander’
(4,2)
E: ‘some eternal villain….
…some busy and insinuating rogue, some cogging, cozening slave’ 4,2
Inadvertently - and very accurately - describes Iago
E: ‘some such squire he was that turned…
…your wit the seamy side without and made you suspect me with the moor’ 4,2
In both cases it is Iago who is the ‘villainous knave’
Des: Hark! Who is’t that knocks?’
E: ‘it’s the wind’ 4,3
voice of reason
Des: ‘No, by this heavenly light!’
E: ‘I might as well do’t in the dark’
4,3 bawdy
E: ‘who would not make her husband a cuckold…
…to make him a monarch’
4,3
E: ‘O fie upon thee…
…strumpet’ (5,1)
E to O: ‘Thou dost belie her…
…and thou art a devil’ 5,2
E to O: ‘thou art rash
as fire 5,2
E: My…
…husband?
pieces it together
E: ‘villainy hath made mocks…
…with love’
5.2
E: ‘may [Iago’s] pernicious soul…
…rot half a grain a day’
E: ‘Thou hast not half that power to do me harm…
…As i have to be hurt’
5,2
E: ‘As ignorant as…
…dirt’ 5,2