Falling Action Flashcards
(18 cards)
Devil[striking her]
“I have not deserved this”
Act 4 Scene 1 Desdemona as a tragic victim
“I am sorry that I am decieved in him”
Lodovico Act 4 Scene 1 Othello has lost his his reputation and it is ironic that he is being accused of deception when Iago is the deceiver
If she be not honest, chaste and true there’s no man happy the purist of their wives is foul is slander
Emilia Act 4 Scene 2 desdemonas virtue is emphasised female solidarity
“Perdition catch my soul if I loved the not chaos has come again”
inevitability of Othello’s demise linked to chaos fate and destiny
“No, I am Christian if to preserve this vessel for my Lord”
Act 4 Scene 1 further hyperbolises D innocence linking to her Christianity contrasting with chaos of Cyprus
“I do think it is their husband‘s fault if their wives do fall”
Emilia’s protofeminism Act 4 Scene 2
“Their wives have sense like them they see and smell and have their pallets both for sweet and sour as husbands have”
Act 4 Scene 2 Emilia’s depiction of female sexuality
“If Casio do you remain, he has a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly”
act 5 scene 1 Iago motivated by jealousy
Oh damn Iago, inhuman dog
Act 5 Scene 1 Iago betrays Roderigo
Kill me tomorrow, but let me live tonight
Act 5 scene 2 D begging for her life
The more angel, she and you the blacker devil
Act 5 Scene 2 Emilia’s strength against Othello - racialised language
“If he say so, may his pernicious soul rot half a grain a day”
Act 5 Scene 2 Emilia figures out Iago’s role in the plot
I will not charm my tongue I will speak
Act 5 Scene 2 Emilia’s tongue separate from her body reinforcing tragic status and rejecting motif of supernatural unlike the men in the play upholding Christian piety
“Malignant and turband Turk.. circumcised dog… base Indian”
Act 5 Scene 2 Othello falls completely into stereotyped force of society in tragedy
“I think the sun where he was born drew all such humours from him”
Inevitability - obviously not what’s happening in the play desdemonas myopia
Irony- opposite of geohumoralism- common belief heat of where u r born makes u more violent
“Yet she must die else she’ll betray more men”
Act 5 Scene 2 - Othello frames desdemonas death as an act of moral righteousness. His tone mimics that of a judge or executioner giving him a sense of false nobility.
“Whiter skin of hers than snow, and smooth as monumental alabaster”
Act 5 Scene 2 - Othello views desdemonas betrayal as representing the collapse of his moral and cultural world. As an outsider (Moor and soldier) he has built his sense of identity on ideals such as honour order and purity - all of which Desdemona is meant to embody. Her infidelity destroys these ideals
“Let heaven and men and devils let them all all all cry shame against me yet I’ll speak”
Act 5 Scene 2 - Emilia’s defiance to Iago, her strength and her morality
