Othello Flashcards
(7 cards)
How does Shakespeare present Othello in the play?
- A victim of racist slurs
- Self-confident, assured, brave, honourable, commanding respect
- Proud
- Misguided, credulous
- Self doubting
- A man divided
- A sufferer and victim
- But savage
- Fulfilling the tole of a tragic ‘hero’
What quotes show he is a victim of racist slurs?
“an old black ram”, “a Barbary horse”
“the thick-lips”, “the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor”
“thou hast enchanted her…in chains of magic…practised on her with foul charms”, “the sooty bosom of such thing as thou”
“like the base Indian, threw a pearl away/Richer than all his tribe”
What quotes show he is self-confident, assured, brave, honourable, commanding respect?
“Let him do his spite;/My services which I have done the signory/Shall out-tongue his complaints”
“My parts, my title, and my perfect soul/Shall manifest me rightly”
“the valiant Moor”
“the man commands,/like a full soldier”, “Brave Othello”
“she loved me for the dangers I had pass’d,/ And I loved her that she did pity them”
“I saw Othello’s visage in his mind/And to his honours and valiant parts/ Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate”
What quotes show he is misguided, credulous?
“that my disports corrupt and taint my business/let housewives make a skillet of my helm”
“Cassio, I love thee/But never more be officer of mine”
“A man of honesty and trust is he”, “Honest Iago”, “I know thou’rt full of love and honesty”
“Men should be what they seem”, “I’ll see before I doubt”
“Why dost thou ask?”, “Is he not honest?”
What quotes show he is a sufferer and victim?
“Why do you speak so faintly?”
“Your napkin is too little”
“Thou hast set me on the rack”
“the fountain from which my current run…a cistern for foul toads/ To knot and gender in”
What quotes show he is savage?
“I’ll tear her to pieces”
“Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!”
“Within these three days let me hear thee say/That Cassio’s not alive”
What quotes show he is fulfilling the role of the tragic ‘hero’?
“For naught did I in hate, but all in honour”
“that demi-devil…hath thus ensnar’d my soul”
“Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate…one that loved not wisely but not too well”
“killing myself, to die upon a kiss”
“he was great of heart”
