othello quotes Flashcards

(37 cards)

1
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knee-crooking …

A

knave (a contemptable person who bows and scrapes)

A1S1- Iago

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2
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obsequious …

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bondage (obsessed with creeping and crawling)-iago A1S1

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3
Q

how does Roderigo describe Othello in A1S1?

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‘thick-lips’

‘lascivious moor’

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4
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an old black ram is …

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tupping your white ewe A1S1 -Iago

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5
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what tell’st thou me …

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of robbing? this is Venice; my house is not a grange. -(farmhouse) (A1S1) -Brabantio

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6
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tying her duty, beauty, …

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wit, and fortunes in an extravagant and wheeling stranger of here and everywhere -Roderigo A1S1

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7
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O unhappy girl! with the ..

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Moor, say’st thou? - who would be a father? -A1S1

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8
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I lack ..

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iniquity

-Iago (A2S1)

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9
Q

Let him do …

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his spite -Othello A2S1

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10
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‘I love ..

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the gentle desdemona’

-othello A2S1

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11
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my parts, my title, …

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and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly

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12
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O thou foul thief, …

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where hast thou stowed my daughter?

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13
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thou has

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enchanted her

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14
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how does Brabantio describe Desdemona in A2S1?

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‘tender, fair and happy’

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15
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she is …

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abused, stolen from me A1S3

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16
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‘rude I am in my speech …

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and little blessed with the soft phrase of peace’ -Othello A1S3

17
Q

they have used their dearest

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action in the tented field

A1S3- his hands have been most valuable in the military

18
Q

she in spite of nature,

to fall in love with

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of years, of country, credit, everything
what she feared to look on
Brabantio

19
Q

did you by indirect and forced courses

A

subdue and poison this young maiden’s affections?

20
Q

send of the lady (….) let her

if you do find me foul in her report (….)

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speak of e before her father

let your sentence even fall upon my life

21
Q

she gave me for my pain

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a world of sighs

22
Q

she loved me for the dangers I had passed,

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and I loved her, that she did pity them

23
Q

often did beguile her of tears

charm tears from her

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when I did speak of some distressed stroke

24
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I do perceive here

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a divided duty

25
that I did love the Moor to live with him,
my downright violence and storm of fortunes may trumpet to the world (she rushes into marriage with Othello to show the world she loves him)
26
vouch with me heaven, I therefore beg it not
to please the palate of my appetite
27
if virtue no delighted beauty lack | if virtue is in itself charming and beautiful
your son-in-law is far more fair than black
28
look to her Moor, if thou hast eyes to see
she has deceived her father, and may thee
29
we must obey
the time | -saying this to Desdemona before he leaves for Cyprus
30
these Moors are
changeable in their wills
31
warlike
Moor Othello
32
who uses the epithet 'divine Desdemona' in A2S1?
Cassio
33
our great captain's
captain | -Cassio about Desdemona (after she and Othello are married)
34
'hail to thee lady!' who is Cassio speaking about here
desdemona
35
'Tis my breeding that
gives me this bold show of courtesy' - (kisses Emilia) | Cassio to Emilia
36
would she give you so much of her lips as her
tongue she oft bestows on me, you would have enough
37
players in your housewifery, | players- deceivers
and housewives in your beds | women are only acting when they do housework, and really go to work in bed