key things! Flashcards
(22 cards)
Coleridge on Iago
‘motiveless malignity’
Wilson-Knight on Othello’s language
‘highly-coloured … stately … rich in sound and phrase … uniquely soldierly precision.’
Anita Loomba
‘women and blacks exist as the ‘the other’’
Caryl Phillips
‘Othello’s love of Desdemona is the love of possession.’
aposiopesis
breaking off in speech
diegesis
interior view of the world
equivocation
intentionally ambiguous language to conceal or confuse
prose
informal speech with no rhythm
proxemics
stage positioning
verse
sophisticated speech with a set rhythm
stichomythia
rapid succession of lines
jealousy quotes
‘beware, my lord, of jealousy!/It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on.’ 3.3 Iago
‘Trifles light as air/Are to the jealous confirmations strong/As proofs of holy writ.’ 3.3 Othello
‘But jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster/Begot upon itself, born on itself.’ 3.4 Emilia
appearance vs reality quotes
‘I am not what I am.’ 1.1 Iago
‘The Moor is of a free and open nature/That thinks men honest that but seem to be so.’ 1.3 Iago
‘Men should be what they seem.’ 3.3 Iago
deception quotes
‘Thus do I ever make my fool my purse.’ 1.3 Iago
‘So I will turn her virtue into pitch/And out of her own goodness make the net/That shall enmesh them all.’ 2.3 Iago
justice quotes
‘Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore;/Be sure of it. Give me the ocular proof.’ 3.3 Othello
‘O perjured woman, thou dost stone my heart,/And mak’st me call what I intend to do/A murder, which I thought a sacrifice.’ 5.2 Othello
othello quotes
‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed.’ 1.3
‘No, Iago, I’ll see before I doubt.’ 3.3
‘Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!’ 3.3
‘Like to the Pontic Sea.’ 3.3
desdemona quotes
‘I do perceive here a divided duty.’ 1.3
‘My downright violence and storm of fortunes/May trumpet to the world.’ 1.3
‘His unkindness may defeat my life/But never taint my love.’ 4.2
‘Kill me tomorrow; let me live tonight.’ 5.2
iago quotes
‘It is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets/He’s done my office.’ 1.3
‘She did deceive her father, marrying you.’ 3.3
‘I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear.’ 2.3
‘Strangle her in bed, even in the bed she hath contaminated.’ 4.1
cassio quote
‘Oh, I have lost my reputation!’ 2.3
emilia quotes
‘Tis not a year or two shows us a man.’ 3.4
‘The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.’ 4.3
animal quotes
‘Barbary horse’
‘A black ram is tupping your white ewe.’
‘Beast with two backs.’
hell and demon quotes
‘green-eyed monster’
‘devil!’
‘whip me, ye devils’
