Othello act one part one Flashcards
(6 cards)
‘I know my price….
‘I am worth no worse a place’
jealousy
hatred
links to the setting in Venice
’ I am not…. (Iago)
what I am’
deceit
manipulation
‘an old black ram (Iago)
is tupping your white ewe’
links to racism
‘Iago who had hadst my purse (Roderigo)
as though the strings were thine’
manipulation
deceit
‘my parts, my title… (Othello)
and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly’
honour
value
virtue
‘I fetch my life and being from (Othello)
men of royal siege and my demerits may speak unbonneted’
- link to Desdemona
- identity
- power
- tragic hero
- appearance vs reality