Othello Quotations Flashcards
(22 cards)
Brabantio- witchcraft.
“Thou hast practiced on her with foul charms… drugs or minerals.”
Brabantio- Desdemona ‘stolen.’
“She is abused, stolen from me, and corrupted by spells and medicines”
Othello- getting Desdemona.
“With a greedy ear devour up my discourse.”
Desdemona- her mother.
“Preferring you before her father.”
Iago- light.
“Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world light.”
Cassio glazing Desdemona (2).
“The divine Desdemona.”
“She’s a most exquisite lady.”
Cassio foreshadowing drinking problem.
“Not tonight good Iago. I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.”
Cassio getting fired.
“Cassio, I love thee, but nevermore be officer of mine.”
Reputation theme.
“Reputation is an idle, and most false imposition.”
“Reputation, reputation, reputation, oh I have lost my reputation.”
Jealousy.
“Beware, my Lord, of jealousy. It is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meet it feeds on.”
Brabantio foreshadowing Desdemona’s ‘affair’.
“Look to her moor, if thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father and may thee.”
Ocular proof.
“… thou prove my love a whore. Be sure of it. Give me the ocular proof.”
Special handkerchief.
“That handkerchief did an Egyptian to my mother give… there’s magic in the web of it.”
Motif of food and consumption (2).
“Men are all but stomachs, and we are all but food.”
“Let husbands know that wives have sense like them; they see and smell and have the palates both for sweet and sour.”
Desdemona’s naivety.
“Beshrew me if I would do such a wrong for the whole world.”
Othello jealous of ‘kiss.’
“To kiss in private?”
“An unauthorised kiss.”
Othello’s jealousy- handkerchief.
Lie with her? Lie on her? They say lie on her, but they do belie her… handkerchief- confessions- handkerchief!”
Othello jealous of ‘kiss’ (2).
“To kiss in private?”
“An unauthorised kiss.”
Othello planning to kill Desdemona (2).
“I will chop her into messes. Cuckold me!”
Iago- “strangle her in her bed.”
Emilia clocking Iago.
“The Moor’s abused by some villainous knave.”
Roderigo dying.
“O damned Iago! O inhuman dog!”
Motif of speech.
“Alas, she has no speech.”
“So speaking as I think, I die, I die.”
