Othello - Position of Women Flashcards
1
Q
Devotion / submission
A
- “A maiden never bold; of spirit so still and quiet that her motion blushed at herself”
- “My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty”
- “She is a most exquisite lady”
- “my noble Moor is true of mind, and made of no such baseless as jealous creatures are”
- “Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?… No, by this heavenly light.”
- “God me such uses send, not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend!”
- “A guiltless death I die” / “Nobody - I myself”
2
Q
Forced submission
A
- “A maiden never bold; of spirit so still and quiet that her motion blushed at herself”
- “Would she give you so much of her lips as of her tongue she oft bestowed me, you’d have enough”
- “They are all but stomachs, and we all but food”
- “They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they belch us.”
- “Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?” / “Why, would not you?”
- “Who would not make her husband a cuckold, to make him a monarch?”
3
Q
Female suffering
A
- “She had a song of willow… and she died singing it.”
- “The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree, sing all a green willow”
- “He smothers her”
