Iago Flashcards
(13 cards)
“ if I can fasten but one cup upon him [Cassio]”
Iago’s Machiavellian plan
Act 2 scene 3
-Exploiting Cassio’s weakness
-imagery of entrapment
-foreshadowing chaos to come
“ a good wench give it me”
[snatching it]
“ I will in Cassios lodging lose the napkin”
Iago’s Machiavellian plan
Act 3 scene 3
-Capitalising on the handkerchief
-Mentally dexterous
-symbolism of handkerchief represents Othello and Desdemona’s love and trust
“ I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear”
Iago’s Machiavellian plan
Act 2 scene 3
-Poisoning Othello
-Metaphor for manipulating Othello’s with lies and malicious suggestions
-imagery of pouring poison is invasive and violent - parasite Iago
“ look to your wife, observed her well with Cassio”
Iago’s manipulation and fabrication
Act 3 scene 3
-plant seeds of jealousy
-imperative language ‘look’ ‘observe’ Iago has authority
“ I am your own forever”
Iago manipulation and fabrication
Act 3 scene 3 (final line of temptation scene)
-warped pseudo marriage
-unhealthy symbiosis
-Othello believes this type of relationship is normal
-climax
-possessive language
-seal of allegiance
“ ha! I like not that”
Iago’s manipulation and a fabrication
Act 3 scene 3
-aposiopesis (intentional cutting sentences off) hints suspicions and doubts, forcing Othello to wonder
-ambiguous
-psychological manipulation
-subtle seeds of doubt
-wants othello to suspect Desdemona and Cassio infidelity
-passive manipulation
-parataxis shows dominance
“Old black ram is tupping your white ewe”
Iagos racism and miscegenation
Act 1 scene 1
-Iago talks to Brabantio
-course vulgar language
-zoomorphic insult
-bestial imagery animalistic imagery
-Dehumanising Othello
“ your daughter and the more are now making the beast with two backs”
Iagos racism and miscegenation
Act 1 scene 1
- Iago to brabantio
-crude Bestial metaphor describing Othello and Desdemona’s relationship
-racist attitudes linking to Othello being othered by Iago and others
“ I follow him to serve my turn upon him”
Iago’s motives and control
Act 1 scene 1
-manipulative nature desire to exploit and control Othello
-engineering the plan seeds of the plan
-Iago immediately presents himself as to face deceptive and duplicitous
“ I hate him as I do hell pains”
Iago’s motives
Act 1 scene 1
-Iago feelings are unambiguous deep hatred
-Hellish imagery reinforces Iago’s evil villainy
-The simile links his hatred to the torment of hell ironic
-Iago‘s emotions with damnation and evil moral corruption
“Make the net that shall enmesh them all”
Iago motives
Act 2 scene 3
-plan in fruition
-Wants to use Desdemona’s goodness against her
-metaphor to trap Othello’s Desdemona Cassio and even Emilia in his web of lies.
“ do not with poison strangle her in her bed”
Iago’s control
Act 4 scene 1
-Iago controls Desdemona’s death through manipulating Othello’s
-Dictating all aspects of his plan
-Psychological manipulation
- bed is symbolic of love and death he twists what is intimate to violent
“[kneeling] do not rise yet”
Iago’s control
Act 3 scene 3
-warped pseudo marriage
-unhealthy symbiosis
-unholy alliance
-stage direction symbolism of prayer idea of religious rituals
-iago controls the moment
