Jealousy Flashcards
(7 cards)
‘O beware, my lord, of jealousy: It is a green eyed monster which doth mock/the meet it feeds on Act 3 scene 3
Dramatic Irony through Iago’s deception.
Imagery symbolises a toxic uncontrollable emotion
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame Act 5, scene 2 Desdemona
Metaphor - transposes the abstract emotion of jealousy into a visceral, almost corporeal phenomenon
Semantic field - uncontrollable violence
Kinaesthetic imagery and bodily disintegration - ‘shakes your very frame’ invokes physical disruption of Othello’s body
‘Her name, that was fresh/as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black’ Act 4 scene 3 Othello about Des
Mythological allusion - Diana, the roman goddess of chastity often depicted as the epitome of female virtue
Juxtaposition - fresh and black, this is an example of semantic disjunction. This a dramatic visual metaphor of how jealousy distorts reality
Sibilants of the ‘b’ sound serves a sonic function, invoking a grim and oppressive quality to the language
‘The Moor already changes with my poison’ Act 3 scene 3 Iago about Othello
Metaphor - ‘poison’ it signifies the contamination of the mind and spirit.
Temporal significance - sense of inevitability
Rhetorical chiasmus - placing emphasis on the transformation of Othello as a result of Iago machinations
Touches on Nietzschean critique of moral and psychological decay, where Othello’s change signifies a fall from grace into a more primitive state of jealousy
‘ I am sure it was your wife’s- did I today see Cassio wipe his beard with’ Act 3 scene 3 Iago
Eristic Dialogue - a method of argumentative speech aimed at persuasion rather than truth
Diegetic inference - indirect storytelling, the audience is forced to deduce the meaning from the subtle cues
Symbolic metonymy - handkerchief functions as a stand in for Desdemona’s fidelity
‘Let her rot, and perish, and be damned to night/for she shall not live’ Othello Act 4, scene 1
Asyndetic tricolon - a list of three violent verbs without conjunctions creates intensity
Diacope - near repetition for violent sentiment shows the obsessive fixation
Religious lexis - ‘Be damned’ and ‘perish’ evoke external condemnation, Othello positions himself as a type of God by choosing her outcome
‘Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought…one whose hand…threw a pearl away rich that all his tribe’ Act 5 scene 2 Othello
Hypotactic syntax - the uses of subordinate clauses mirrors Othello’s attempt to rationalise and control the narrative
Periphrasis - offers himself in third person, and avoids direct responsibility
Symbolic economy - sacrifice within a single symbol, signifying irretrievable loss
