Gender Flashcards
(12 cards)
Othello about killing Desdemona
“I’ll not shed her blood
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow
And smooth as monumental alabaster”
Cassio about Desdemona in relation to Othello
“Our great captain’s captain”
Cassio about Bianca
“I marry her! What? A customer!”
Iago about desdemona and Othello to Brabantio
“An old black ram is tupping your white ewe”
Brabantio to Othello about Desdemona
“She has deceived her father, and may thee”
Brabantio’s case against Othello to the State
“Not to affect many proposed matches of her own clime, complexion, and degree”
Emilia’s cyncism about married life
“But i do think it is their husband’s faults if their wives do fall.”
Cassio- masculinity + reputation
“I have lost the immortal part of myself”
Emilia- elizabethan gender dynamics
“tis not a year or two shows us a man”
Iago about the duplicity of venetian women
‘pictures out of doors’ but ‘wildcats in your kitchens’
