Othello key quotes Flashcards
(51 cards)
1.1 Quotes about deception
‘I follow him to serve my turn upon him’.
1.1 Othello described in racist terms
‘An old black ram is tupping your white ewe’, ‘barbary horse’ ‘the moor’
1.2 Presetation of Desdemona
‘I love the gentle Desdemona’
‘tender, fair and happy’
‘delicate’
1.2 Othello as a sorcerer and an abuser
‘if she in chains of magic were not bound’
‘enchanted’
‘abused her delicate youth’
‘abuser’
1.2 Othello as respectable- a voice of reason
‘My parts, my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly.’
‘You shall more command with years rather than with your weapons’
1.2 Iago’s deceit of Othello
‘I did full hard forbear him’
1.3 Othello in the military sphere
‘Valiant moor’ ‘Valiant Othello’
‘I won his daughter’
‘questioned me the story of my life’ ‘battles, sieges, fortunes’ and ‘with a greedy ear devoured up my discourse.’
‘she loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them’
1.3 description vs reality of Desdemona
‘a maiden never bold’
‘blushed at herself’ vs defiant
‘I did love the moor to love with him.’
1.3 Iago as deceptive
‘lust of the blood’
‘when she is sated with his body, she will find the error of her choice’
‘I hate the moor’ ‘abuse Othello’s ear’
‘put money in thy purse’.
2.1 Military and Othello
‘our wars are done’
‘the man commands like a full soldier’
‘brave Othello’
2.1 Cassio about Desdemona
‘Hail to thee lady’
2.1 Iago about women
‘ever fair and never proud’
‘never loud’
‘she that could think and ne’er disclose her mind’.
2.1 Othello and Desdemona’s love
‘if it were now to die, twere now to be most happy’.
Othello’s speech to her in iambic pentameter contrasts love and death- ‘wakened death’, ‘hell from heaven’
2.1 Iago’s deceit
‘Desdemona is directly in love with him’
‘If she had been blessed, she would never have loved the moor.’
‘abuse him to the moor’.
2.2 Othello respectability in the military sphere
‘Our noble and valiant general’
2.3 Iago and Cassio’s differing perspectives on Desdemona
‘full of game’ vs ‘fresh and delicate creature’
2.3 Cassio manipulated
‘he’ll be full of quarrel and offence’
‘I’ll do it, but it dislikes me’.
2.3 Cassio’s valuation of hierarchy and reputation
‘the lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient’
‘a knave teach me my duty?’
‘Reputation, reputation, reputation!’
‘I have lost my reputation’
2.3 Iago as cunning
‘I fear the trust Othello puts in him.’
Mimics Othello’s iambic pentameter in deferring blame for the brawl.
‘As I am an honest man’
‘I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear’
Cassio calling him ‘honest Iago’ despite Iago being the reason he’s fired.
2.3 Othello restoring order
Speech in iambic pentameter condemning the fight.
‘barbarous brawl’ comparing them to the Turks
2.3 Importance of Desdemona
‘Our general’s wife is now the general.’
3.1 Irony
‘I never knew a florentine so kind and honest.’- Cassio about Iago.
3.2 Othello’s importance
‘Well, my good Lord, I’ll do’t’
‘we’ll wait upon your lordship.’
3.3 Desdemona’s loyalty
‘If I do vow a friendship, I’ll perform it to the last article’.
