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What happens in act 1 scene 1?

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Roderigo and Iago wake Brabantio to tell him about Desdemona and Othello’s elopement

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What happens in act 1 scene 2?

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There is a new threat in Cyprus and Brabantio demands Othello’s arrest for stealing away his daughter

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What happens in act 1 scene 3?

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Brabantio accuses Othello before the Duke but Othello defends himself, the Duke allows the marriage and appoints Othello as leader of the Venetian force against the Turks. Desdemona asks to go with him to Cyprus

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What happens in act 2 scene 1?

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The Turkish fleet is destroyed by the storm at sea, Cassio arrives in Cyprus followed by Iago, Desdemona and Emilia, Othello and Desdemona are reunited but Iago reveals his plans to wreck their happiness based on Cassio’s behaviour towards Desdemona

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What happens in Act 2 scene 2?

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Othello proclaims a public holiday until evening showing he is a noble character by exercising his power as leader of the Venetians in Cyprus

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What happens in Act 2 Scene 3?

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Iago encourages Cassio to drink until he becomes quarrelsome and fights when provoked by Roderigo, Othello demotes Cassio but Iago encourages him to seek Desdemona’s assistance, Roderigo threatens to return to Venice

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What happens in act 3 scene 1?

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Cassio hires some musicians to serenade Othello and Desdemona, but Othello sends a clown to pay the musicians to leave, Iago says he will divert Othello’s attention so that Cassio can speak to Desdemona alone and Emilia agrees to help

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What happens in Act 3 Scene 2?

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Othello sends letters to Venice and leaves his quarters to inspect the island’s fortifications

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What happens in Act 3 Scene 3?

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Desdemona promises that she will intercede for Cassio, Iago makes suggestions to Othello to manipulate him into thinking that Desdemona has been unfaithful, Emilia gives Desdemona’s handkerchief to Iago

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What happens in Act 3 Scene 4?

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Othello asks Desdemona for the handkerchief she has lost but she changes the subject to Cassio causing Othello to leave in rage, Desdemona tells Cassio and Iago that Othello is behaving strangely and Emilia suggests that it is jealousy. Cassio is met by his mistress, Bianca and gives her the handkerchief

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What happens in Act 4 Scene 1?

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Iago continues to manipulate Othello until he has a seizure, Iago promises to get props and Othello hides whole Iago and Cassio discuss a woman assumed to be Desdemona, Othello is now convinced that she is unfaithful, Lodovico brings letters recalling Othello to Venice and Othello insults and strikes Desdemona in front of him

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What happens in Act 4 Scene 2?

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Othello questions Emilia about Desdemona and sends for Desdemona to accuse her of adulterous, she is distressed and Emilia tries to comfort her before going to fetch Iago, Iago speaks some words of comfort then sets up Roderigo to attack and kill Cassio

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What happens in Act 4 Scene 3?

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Desdemona prepares for bed and talks to Emilia about unfaithful wives and sings a song about Barbary who’s husband went mad and abandoned her

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What happens in Act 5 Scene 1?

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Roderigo lies in wait for Cassio as he comes from Bianca’s house there is a quick fight and both are wounded, their cries convince Othello that Iago has murdered Cassio, Lodovico and Gratiano come to see what is the matter and Iago appears on the scene taking control killing Roderigo and sending Emilia to tell Othello and Desdemona

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What happens in Act 5 Scene 2?

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Othello comes to Desdemona in her bed chamber to kill her, he accuses her of adultery with Cassio to which she pleads her innocence but he covers her head with a pillow and suffocates her, Emilia brings need of the fighting and the death of Roderigo, she sees Desdemona murdered and hears Othello’s accusation and raises the alarm fetching Iago, Gratiano and Montano, Emilia denounces Iago who draws his sword on her and flees, Iago is brought back with Cassio and the truth is revealed, Othello, convinced of his own guilt, stabs himself, Iago is arrested and taken away

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Who said “I am not what I am”?

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Iago, act1 scene1 reveals his duplicitous nature from the exposition, establishes his role as antagonist, key theme of deception and deceit, paradoxical language highlights the difference between how the audience sees Iago and how other characters see him, he intends to hide his true character to manipulate the situation, declarative statement makes his deception clear to the audience, antithesis creates confusion and ambiguity

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Who said “an old black ram is tupping your white ewe”?

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Iago a1s1, Othello and Desdemona’s relationship is fated to end in tragedy due to their different races and social status, black vs. white imagery portrays Othello as an outsider, negative racial connotations - Iago characterises Othello as a stereotype of his race (bestial sexuality), your has connotations of ownership (possessive pronoun) women were seen as objects for men to own

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Who said “I love thee gentle Desdemona”?

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Othello a1s2

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Who said “O, thou foul thief”?

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Brabantio 1.2

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Who said “thou hast enchanted her”?

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Brabantio 1.2

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Who said “your son in law is far more fair than black”?

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The Duke about Othello to Brabantio 1.3

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Who said “if thou hast eyes go see she has deceived her father and may thee”?

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Brabantio to Othello about Desdemona 1.3

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Who said “I hate the moor”?

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Iago about Othello 1.3

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Who said “rude am I in my speech”?

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Othello 1.3

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Who said “the divine Desdemona”?
Cassio 2.2
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Who said “with as little a web as this will I ensnare a fly as great as Cassio”?
Iago 2.1
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Who said “turned Turks”?
Othello 2.1
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Who says “Iago is most honest”?
Othello 2.3
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Who says “reputation, reputation, reputation”?
Cassio 2.3 after his fight
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Who says “I’ll put this pestilence into his ear”?
Iago about Othello 2.3
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Who says “O beware, my lord, of jealousy, it is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on”?
Iago to Othello 3.3 theme of jealousy
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Who said “why did I marry?”?
Othello 3.3 on Desdemona’s supposed unfaithfulness
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Who said “I am black and have not those soft parts of conversation”?
Othello 3.3 hamartia of insecurity
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Who says “O curse of marriage”?
Othello 3.3
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Who says “that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!”?
Othello’s soliloquy 3.3 mirroring Iago’s misogynistic language, contrast with Emilia’s ‘stomach’ metaphor
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Who says “foolish wife” and “a good wench! Give it me”?
Iago 3.3 misogynistic language/treatment of Emilia
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Who says “her name was as fresh as Dian’s visage is now befriend and black as mine own face”?
Othello about Desdemona’s impurity also links to his racial insecurity 3.3
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Who says “damn her, lewd minx! Oh damn her, damn her!” ?
Othello 3.3 again mirroring Iago’s sexualised, derogatory view of women, repetition also shows his language as deteriorating
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Who says “there’s magic in the web of it”?
Othello about the handkerchief 3.4 link to Iago’s web metaphor in 2.1 and Brabantios view of Othello/ black stereotype in 1.2
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Who says “my lord is not my lord”?
Desdemona 3.4 link to Iago saying “I am not what I am” in 1.1, Othello is becoming more and more like Iago showing his manipulative influence
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Who says “they are all but stomachs, we all but food, they eat us hungrily and when they are full they belch us”?
Emilia 3.4 talking about men’s sexual desire, subversion of the stereotype of women across the play
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Who says “it is a monster begot upon itself, born on itself”?
Emilia 3.4 to Desdemona about jealousy link to the “green eyed monster” of jealousy (Iago 3.3)
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Who says “lie with her? On her?”?
Othello 4.1
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Who says “I will chop her into messes, cuckold me!”?
Othello 4.1 shows his violence
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Who says “...even the bed she hath contaminated”?
Iago 4.1
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Who says “what! Strike his wife?”?
Lodovico 4.1
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Who says “tho art false as hell”?
Othello to Desdemona 4.2
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Who says “O,heaven forgive us”?
Desdemona 4.2
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Who says “his unkindness may defeat my life but never taint my love”?
Desdemona 4.2
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Who says “there be women do abuse their husbands in such gross kind?”
Desdemona 4.3
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Who says “I do think it is their husbands fault if wives do fall”?
Emilia 4.3
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Who says “perdition catch my soul but I do love thee, and when I love thee not chaos is come again”?
Othello 3.3
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"I am your own forever"
iago 3.3 to Othello, element of homoerotic love, Iago's motivation could be that he is in love with Othello and therefore jealous of Desdemona, key theme of deception and deceit/Iago's duplicity
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"My Lord, you know I love you"
3.3 Iago to Othello, Othello faces an internal battle between Desdemona's true love and Iago's false love
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"recoiling to her better judgement"
3.3 Iago suggests that it is natural that Desdemona should feel attracted to Cassio as she rejected a number of suitable partners before marrying Othello
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"country disposition"
3.3 Iago reminds Othello that he is an outsider in venetian society
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"epithets of war" "squadron in the field" "battle"
1.1 semantic field of war foreshadows the conflict which is to come, the macrocosm (public sphere) reflects the microcosm (private sphere)
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"lascivious moor"
1.1 Roderigo, sexualised imagery to portray Othello as corrupt, playing to stereotypes of Othello's race
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"though I do hate him as I do hell pains I must show out a flag and sign of love"
1.1 Iago, Othello is associated with hellish imagery, contextually black skin was associated with hell and the devil, love and hate set in juxtaposition revealing his duplicitous character, establishing key concepts of love and hate, sets up his character development throughout - he continually goes behind Othello's back but making it seem like he cares for him
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"I follow him to serve my turn upon him"
1.1 Iago's role as antagonist, the audience and Roderigo are the only people who know Iago's intentions - audience positioned close to Iago rather than Othello, allowing for dramatic irony
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Othello is described as 'him' and 'the moor'
1.1 portrays him as an outsider despite being the eponymous character, he is not in the first scene, audience positioned closer to Iago, establishes key theme of race, revealing Othello is a black man, audience inclined to dislike him even before he appears on stage, positions the audience closer to Iago allowing for dramatic irony
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"nor the division of battle knows more than a spinster"
1.1 Iago about Cassio, develops Iago's position of antagonist/tragic villain, outlining his intentions and motivations, he is a gentleman not a soldier - what Othello aspires to be hence why he is jealous of him
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"One Michael Cassio a Florentine"
1.1 Iago about Cassio, he is also an outsider in Venice but Cassio, as an educated Florentine gentlemen is a cultural insider while Othello would be seen as a cultural outsider, Florence had a reputation of city culture so he is a social sophisticate unlike Othello, Othello aspires to be more like Cassio and is therefor easily jealous
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what did F.R Leavis say caused Othello's downfall?
Othello's 'essential make up' lead to his tragedy as he is 'simple minded'
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"one not easily jealous but when wrought perplexed in the extreme"
5.2 ironic as jealousy is Othello's hamartia or fatal flaw, he is not as self aware of his hamartia as a tragic hero would be expected to be after a moment of anagnorisis, instead he blames Iago the 'demi devil'
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"demi devil"
5.2 Othello realises Iago has been acting as antagonist/tragic villain, he reaches anagnorisis but more so about Iago's flaws rather than his own, perhaps due to his hubris (excessive pride) and desire to fit into Venetian society
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"Othello's occupation's gone"
3.3 Othello is deeply jealous at the idea of Desdemona and Cassio and believes he has been cuckolded, hubris, he is so proud of his career and character that he would rather be a murderer than a cuckold
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"my parts, my title and my perfect soul will manifest me rightly"
1.2 Othello, hubris his reputation matters a lot to him as he has had to work hard for it, however it is understandable here as his reputation has been threatened
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"rude am I in my speech"
1.3 Othello, revealing his hamartia of racial insecurity, ironic at this point as precedes a speech in iambic pentameter
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"haply for I am black, and have not those soft parts of conversation"
3.3 Othello, racial insecurity (hamartia) this time not as ironic as his speech has started to disintegrate
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"base Indian" "circumcised dog"
5.2 in Othello's final speech we see his insecurity through his repeated negative language and metaphors when describing himself
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"your daughter and the moor are now making the beast with two backs"
1.1 Iago to Brabantio, negative racial stereotypes
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"an old black ram" "barbary horse"
1.1 Iago to Brabantio racial stereotype of a lustful predator, their relationship reduced to bestial sexuality
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"your son in law is far more fair than black"
1.3 the Duke, racist language/colour imagery, suggests Iago is good despite his race, he is an exception to his race, stereotypes still exist
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"run from her guardage to a sooty bosom"
1.2 Brabantio, racist language, also sets Desdemona as a transgressive woman (women in Tragedies are always punished for being transgressive) as she has 'deceived her father'
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"valiant Othello"
1.3 The Duke, he is a valued soldier and member of society, he is not really an outsider he only thinks he is
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"she had eyes and chose me"
3.3 Othello still remains proud and believes Desdemona's love in the middle of Iago's key manipulative scene, this soon changes as he becomes 'wrought' in jealousy
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How is Othello's downfall signified?
disintegrates psychologically and morally through the play signified by his linguistic deterioration from perfect iambic pentameter to repetition and broken/fragmented language
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what is an example of Othello's perfect iambic pentameter?
1.3 "most potent grave and reverend signors"
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"away, away, away"
4.3 repeated language signifies Othello's downfall through linguistic deterioration
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"handkerchief-confessions-handkerchief"
4.1 fragmented language signals Othello's downfall, the handkerchief is a key narrative thread linked to fate ('there's magic in the web of it') and Othello sees the handkerchief as 'ocular proof'
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"damn her lewd minx! O, damn her damn her!"
4.1 misogynistic language shows downfall as it mirrors Iago's language, he has adopted Iago's way of viewing women (contrast with 'I love the gentle Desdemona'), exclamatives also reveal his linguistic deterioration
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what does Dr Johnson say about Othello's downfall?
blames the 'cool malignity of Iago' for Othello's downfall
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what does William Hazlitt say about Othello's downfall?
Othello has 'blood of the most inflammable kind' suggesting his jealousy (hamartia) is an essential element of his character
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"perdition catch my soul but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again"
3.3 last moment before peripeteia and chaos ensues, before Iago's manipulation - this quickly shifts as the scene progresses, his decisiveness that made him a successful soldier leads him to seek 'ocular proof' and quickly decides that they must both die
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"rash and most unfortunate man"
5.2 Gratiano and Montano, in his final speeches he is not his noble self because he has become a villain, his murderous actions cause his dislocation not his race, Gratiano and Montano do not mention race
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"keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them"
1.2 Othello begins as a successful soldier, leading armies, military image is poetic, he is powerful in the world of war (racial stereotype of violence) yet not so powerful in the domestic and political spheres
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"free condition/put into circumscription and confine"
1.2 marriage challenges his military position, as an audience we wonder how he will balance his conflicting roles as a military man and loving husband, language used to describe marriage suggests entrapment suggets it is not in his true nature to be loving, cannot be his true self in the private sphere, link to Iago's view of marriage in 1.1
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"a fellow almost damned in a fair wife"
1.1 Iago sees marriage as entrapment and damnation/punishment
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"let him do his spite" "I must be found"
1.2 Othello, he is honourable at the start of the play and is not scared about what Brabantio will say to him
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"foul thief" "practiser or arts inhibited" "foul charms"
1.2 Brabantio, accuses Othello of racial stereotypes, painting him as an outsider, magic and spells linked to fate - the handkerchief has "magic in the web of it"
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"I love the gentle Desdemona"
1.2 Othello and Desdemona's relationship is stable and loving, Othello is confident in himself and his marriage
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"valiant moor"
1.3 Senator, revealing that Othello is not an outsider (at least not in the field of war), he only thinks he is which is his hamartia of insecurity to do with race and social class
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Othello is described as "an erring Barbarian" but Desdemona is a "super subtle Venetian"
1.3 Iago, their marriage is fated to fall from the start, significant that Iago highlights their differences in race and social class as he catalyses the deterioration of their marriage as antagonist
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"loved me for the dangers I had passed/ And I loved her that she did pity them" "she gave me for my pains a world of sighs"
1.3 Othello, he is trying to prove that he loves her, however we can already see cracks in their relationship (exposition: potential for tragedy) as he only loves her because she loves and pities him for the things he is insecure about. heightens the irony of 'rude am I in my speech' as she is in love with him for his story telling abilities
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Desdemona "saw Othello's visage in his mind"
1.3 perhaps Desdemona and Othello fell in love with the idea of each other rather than the person
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"a maiden never bold;/ Of spirit so still and quiet that her motion/ Blushed at herself" contrasted with "half the wooer"
1.3 The version of Desdemona that Othello knows is ver different to Brabantio's idea of his daughter, key theme of deception and deceit and Desdemona as a transgressive woman sets up the potential for tragedy
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"I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband"
1.3 Desdemona establishes her role as a transgressive woman as she has defied her father, sets up the potential for tragedy, however he isn't entirely transgressive as she shifts her loyalty to her husband
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"My heart's subdued/ Even to the very quality of my lord"
1.3 Desdemona, she is not wholly transgressive and is loyal to Othello, heightens sense of pathos at the denouement as she becomes a tragic victim
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"I did love the Moor to live with him... Let me go with him"
1.3 Desdemona shows that she is a powerful woman as she is very commanding and uses imperative language, she is subversive
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Iago will fabricate a rumour that Cassio is "too familiar" with Desdemona
1.3 ironic that this is Iago's plan as it is in response to the suspician that he has been cuckolded
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What does Caryl Phillips suggest about Othello as a lover?
Othello 'feels constantly threatened and profoundly insecure"
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"it was my hint to speak" "upon this hint I spake"
1.3 Othello is an insecure lover, his hamartia is his insecurity due to his race and social class
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What does Coleridge say about Iago's motivation?
it is "motiveless malignity", suggesting that Iago is villainous for the purpose of being villainous rather than because he believes that Othello has "twixt my sheets" and "done my office" 1.1
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"warlike isle"
2.1 Cyprus is a crucible for tragedy, it is rooted in war and conflict hence why the tragedy plays out here, this foreshadows the tragedy
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"warlike moor"
2.1 Montano about Othello, Othello is linguistically linked to the "warlike isle" that is Cyprus
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"she did deceive her father marrying you"
3.3 Iago
108
"our noble and valiant general"
2.2 Herald
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"the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet"
2.2 Herald
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"there is full liberty in feasting...till the bell have told eleven"
2.2 Herald, Othello's generosity
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"besides these beneficial news, it is the celebration of his nupital"
2.2 Herald, linking of love and war, foreshadows chaos
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"sport for Jove" "full of game"
2.3 Iago about Desdemona
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"fresh and delicate" "modest" "perfection"
2.3 Cassio about desdemona
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Othello is "so enfettered to her love"
2.3 Iago, thinks the marriage is easy to destroy
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Desdemona can "play the God/with his weak function"
2.3 Iago
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"my blood begins my safer guides to use"
2.3 tension rises, Othello becomes inccreasingly violent
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"never more be officer of mine"
2.3 Othello to Cassio
118
"zounds"
2.3 Othello his measured language is beginning to break
119
"it is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will"
2.3 Iago about love
120
"if thou canst cuckold him, thou dost thouself a pleasure, me a sport"
2.3 Iago to Roderigo
121
"put money in thy purse"
2.3 Iago to Roderigo
122
Iago is "Kind and generous"
3.1 Cassio
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"I'll devise a mean to draw the moor/out of the way"
3.1 Iago to Cassio
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"my good lord"
3.2 Othello to Iago
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"I cannot think it/that he would steal away so guilty-like/seeing you coming"
3.3 Iago to Othello about Cassio
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"show me thy thoughts" "by heaven I'll know thy thoughts"
3.3 Othello to Iago
127
His thoughts are "vile and false"
3.3 Iago
128
"set on thy wife to observe Desdemona"
3.3 Othello to Iago
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"what sense had I of her stolen hours of lust? / I saw't not, thought it not"
3.3 Othello
130
"she had eyes and chose me"
3.3 Othello
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"did Michael Cassio, when you wooed my lady, Know of your love?"
3.3 Iago
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"they are all but stomachs and we all but food; to eat us hungerly and when they are full they belch us"
3.4 Emilia
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"that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites"
3.3 Othello
134
"there's magic in the web of it"
3.4 Othello about the handkerchief
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"a monster/begot upon itself, born on itself"
3.4 Emilia
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"give me your hand, this hand is moist my lady"
3.4 Othello
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"strangle her in bed, even the bed she hath contaminated"
4.1 Iago
138
"I do perceive here a divded duty"
1.3 Desdemona
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"the Moor is of a free and open nature/That thinks men honest that but seem so"
1.3 Iago
140
"you may relish him more in the soldier than the scholar"
2.1 Cassio links Iago to othello
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"If I were now to die, Twere now to be most happy"
2.1 Othello
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"Her eye must be fed"
2.1 Iago about Desdemona
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"make the moor thank me, love me, and reward me For making him egregiously an ass"
2.1 Iago
144
"By heaven, thou echo'st me As if there were some monster in thy thought too hideous to be shown"
3.3 Othello to Iago
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"How shall I murder him Iago?"
4.1 Othello
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"chop her into messes"
4.1 Othello
147
"I will not stay to offend you"
4.1 Desdemona
148
"handkerchief-confessions-handkerchief"
4.1 Othello
149
"with her, on her, what you will"
4.1 Iago
150
desdemona will be "damned tonight"
4.1 othello
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"fire and brimstone"
4.1 othello
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"goats and monkeys"
4.1 othello
153
"o it comes o'er my memory as doth the raven o'er the infectious house"
4.1 othello
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"confess!-handkerchief!-oh devil!"
4.1 othello
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"falls in a trance"
4.1 about othello
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"Work on my medicine work"
4.1 Iago
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"breaks out to savage madness"
4.1 Iago about Othello
158
"a horned mans a monster and a beast"
4.1 Othello
159
"civil monster"
4.1 Iago, most likely describing Cassio but ironic as this is really is character
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"so.so.so.so"
4.1 othello
161
"some minx's token"
4.1 Bianca describing the handkerchief
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"by heaven that should be my handkerchief"
4.1 Othello
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"what? Strike his wife?"
4.1 Lodovico about Othello
164
"hath all the requisites in him that folly and green minds look after"
2.1 about cassio
165
"strumpet" "whore"
4.2 Othello about Desdemona
166
"lovely fair" but "a weed"
4.2 about Desdemona
167
"a cistern for foul toads"
4.2 about Desdemona and Othello's marriage
168
"grim as hell"
4.2 about Othello
169
"that cunning whore of venice that married with othello"
4.2 Othello talks about himself in third person
170
"I understand a fury in your words but not the words"
4.2 Desdemona
171
"eternal villain"
4.2 Emilia
172
"my noble lord" "to win my lord again"
4.2 Desdemona
173
"his unkindness may defeat my love but never taint my love"
4.2 Desdemona
174
cassio "hath a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly"
5.1 Iago
175
"he must die" "a young quat"
5.1 Iago about roderigo
176
"O damned Iago! O inhuman dog"
5.1 Roderigo
177
"from this point forth i n ever will speak a word"
5.2 Iago
178
"of one that loved not wisely but too well; of one not easily jealous but being wrought perplexxed in the extreme"
5.2 Othello
179
"like the base indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe"
5.2 Othello
180
"circumcised dog"
5.2
181
"commend me to my kind lord"
5.2
182
"put out the light then put out the light"
5.2
183
"I told him what i thought, and told no more/than what he found himself was apt and true"
5.2
184
What did Caryl Phillips say about Othello?
‘The pressures placed upon him rendered his life a tragedy’
185
"whip me ye devils, from the possession of this heavenly sight! Blow me about in winds! Roast me in sulphur!"
5.2 Othello is accepting of his punishment and nemesis
186
"O Desdemon! Dead Desdemon! Dead! O! O!"
5.2 anagnoris
187
"O fool, fool, fool!"
5.2 Othello's anagnorisis
188
"like the base Indian, threw a pearl away greater than all his tribe"
5.2 order is restored, Othello briefly returns to former state of grace before his death
189
"killing myself to die upon a kiss"
5.2 Othello's death is almost glamorised

english literature (7 decks)

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